Camissoniopsis pallida |
Camissoniopsis hardhamiae |
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pale yellow sun cup |
Hardham's evening-primrose |
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Habit | Herbs annual, appearing conspicuously grayish, densely strigillose, sometimes also glandular puberulent distally. | Herbs annual, villous, also glandular puberulent distally. | ||||
Stems | usually with decumbent lateral branches from basal rosette, 5–60 cm. |
erect, with 1 or more branches from basal rosette, to 60 cm. |
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Leaves | 1–5(–11) × 0.2–0.7(–1.4) cm; petiole 0–0.2(–0.4) cm, distal ones sessile; blade lanceolate to narrowly ovate, base often cuneate to truncate, sometimes attenuate, margins sparsely denticulate, apex acute to obtuse. |
1–12 × 0.4–1.8 cm; subsessile; blade lanceolate, narrowly elliptic, or narrowly ovate, base truncate, margins dentate, apex acute. |
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Flowers | opening near sunrise; floral tube 1–4.2 mm; sepals (1.5–)2.5–8 mm; petals yellow, sometimes with 1–3 red dots basally, (2–)3.5–13 mm; episepalous filaments (0.5–)1.5–6.5 mm, epipetalous filaments (0.2–)0.5–3.8 mm, anthers (0.4–)0.8–2.2 mm, less than 5% of pollen grains 4- or 5-pored; style (2.1–)3–10.5 mm, stigma surrounded by at least anthers of longer stamens, often by both sets, at anthesis. |
opening near sunrise; floral tube 1.7–2 mm; sepals 1.8–3.2 mm; petals yellow, immaculate, 2–4 mm; episepalous filaments 1.5–2 mm, epipetalous filaments 1–1.5 mm, anthers 0.7 mm, 70–100% of pollen grains 4- or 5-pored; style 3–4 mm, stigma surrounded by anthers at anthesis. |
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Capsules | usually 1–3-coiled spiral, subterete in living material, 4-angled when dry, 13–24 × 0.7–1.2 mm. |
straight or 1-coiled, subterete in living material, obscurely 4-angled when dry, 13–25 × 1.3–1.6 mm. |
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Seeds | 1–1.5 mm. |
0.7–1.1 mm. |
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2n | = 42. |
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Camissoniopsis pallida |
Camissoniopsis hardhamiae |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–May. | |||||
Habitat | Sandy soils, limestone, disturbed oak woodlands. | |||||
Elevation | 150–1000 m. (500–3300 ft.) | |||||
Distribution | w United States; nw Mexico
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CA |
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Discussion | Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). P. H. Raven (1969) determined Camissoniopsis pallida to be self-compatible and primarily autogamous. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Camissoniopsis hardhamiae is narrowly endemic to the Outer South Coast Ranges. Populations are very local, known only from a few localities in sandy soil in disturbed oak woodland, southernmost Monterey to central San Luis Obispo County. P. H. Raven (1969) determined C. hardhamiae to be self-compatible and primarily autogamous. The species is apparently a hexaploid derived via hybridization between the tetraploid C. intermedia (2n = 28) and the diploid C. micrantha (2n = 14). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 10. | FNA vol. 10. | ||||
Parent taxa | Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Camissoniopsis | Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Camissoniopsis | ||||
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Synonyms | Sphaerostigma pallidum, Camissonia pallida, Oenothera abramsii, O. micrantha var. abramsii | Camissonia hardhamiae | ||||
Name authority | (Abrams) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 205. (2007) | (P. H. Raven) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 204. (2007) | ||||
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