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pale yellow sun cup

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pale sun cup

Habit Herbs annual, appearing conspicuously grayish, densely strigillose, sometimes also glandular puberulent distally.
Stems

usually with decumbent lateral branches from basal rosette, 5–60 cm.

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.

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.

floral tube 1–3 mm;

sepals (1.5–)2.5–5.5 mm;

petals rarely with red dots basally, (2–)3.5–6(–8) mm; episepalous filaments (0.5–)1.5–4 mm, epipetalous filaments (0.2–)0.5–2.2 mm, anthers (0.4–)0.8–1.2 mm;

style (2.1–)3–6.5 mm.

Capsules

usually 1–3-coiled spiral, subterete in living material, 4-angled when dry, 13–24 × 0.7–1.2 mm.

Seeds

1–1.5 mm.

2n

= 14.

Camissoniopsis pallida

Camissoniopsis pallida subsp. pallida

Phenology Flowering (Jan–)Mar–Aug(–Nov).
Habitat Desert slopes and flats, along washes, creosote bush scrub, Joshua tree woodlands.
Elevation 30–1900 m. (100–6200 ft.)
Distribution
w United States; nw Mexico
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AZ; CA; NV; Mexico (Baja California)
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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.)

Subspecies pallida occurs from the head of the San Joaquin Valley in Ventura and Kern counties, California, across the Colorado and Mojave deserts, north to the vicinity of Independence, Inyo County, California, and Esmeralda County, Nevada (the only member of the genus in Nevada), east to Mohave and Yavapai counties, Arizona, and also in the vicinity of Tucson, Pima County; also south along the eastern side of Baja California to the Sierra de San Borjas, Mexico.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Key
1. Floral tube 1–3 mm; petals (2–)3.5–6(–8) mm; styles (2.1–)3–6.5 mm.
subsp. pallida
1. Floral tube 3.8–4.2 mm; petals 6.5–13 mm; styles 6.5–10.5 mm.
subsp. hallii
Source FNA vol. 10. FNA vol. 10.
Parent taxa Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Camissoniopsis Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Camissoniopsis > Camissoniopsis pallida
Sibling taxa
C. bistorta, C. cheiranthifolia, C. confusa, C. guadalupensis, C. hardhamiae, C. hirtella, C. ignota, C. intermedia, C. lewisii, C. luciae, C. micrantha, C. robusta
C. pallida subsp. hallii
Subordinate taxa
C. pallida subsp. hallii, C. pallida subsp. pallida
Synonyms Sphaerostigma pallidum, Camissonia pallida, Oenothera abramsii, O. micrantha var. abramsii Oenothera hirta var. exfoliata, O. micrantha var. exfoliata, Sphaerostigma micranthum var. exfoliatum
Name authority (Abrams) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 205. (2007) unknown
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