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robust subcup, robust suncup

jurupa hills sun cup

Habit Herbs annual, villous, usually also glandular puberulent distally. Herbs annual, strigillose, usually also sparsely villous, often also glandular puberulent distally.
Stems

erect, with 1 or more ascending branches from base, to 60 cm.

arising from base, usually decumbent, rarely with only 1, erect stem, 10–55 cm.

Leaves

1–8 × 1.5–2 cm;

subsessile;

blade narrowly lanceolate-elliptic, base cuneate to truncate, basal often attenuate, margins denticulate, apex acute.

1.5–7 × 0.3–1.3 cm;

petiole (0–)0.2–2.5 cm, petiolate distally;

blade narrowly lanceolate, lanceolate, or narrowly elliptic, base attenuate, margins serrulate, apex acute.

Flowers

opening near sunrise;

floral tube 1.8–3.7 mm;

sepals 2.6–4.2 mm;

petals yellow, usually with 1 or 2 red dots basally, 3.2–7 mm; episepalous filaments 1.8–3 mm, epipetalous filaments 1–1.5 mm, anthers 0.8–3 mm, 70–100% of pollen grains 4-pored;

style 3–6.2 mm, stigma surrounded by anthers at anthesis.

opening near sunrise;

floral tube (1.1–)1.8–3 mm;

sepals 2.6–5.5 mm;

petals yellow, sometimes red-dotted near base, (3–)4–8 mm; episepalous filaments (1.2–)2.5–3.6 mm, epipetalous filaments (1–)1.3–2 mm, anthers (0.6–)0.8–1.6 mm, less than 5% of pollen grains 4- or 5-pored;

style (3–)4.5–7 mm, stigma surrounded by anthers at anthesis.

Capsules

usually 1-coiled spiral, 4-angled, 14–25 × 1.5–2 mm.

very slender, usually much contorted, irregularly to 5-coiled, rarely simply flexuous, terete in living material, 4-angled when dry, 20–30 × 0.8–1 mm.

Seeds

0.9–1.2 mm.

1.2–1.3 mm.

2n

= 42.

= 14.

Camissoniopsis robusta

Camissoniopsis ignota

Phenology Flowering (Jan–)Mar–Jun(–Sep). Flowering (Jan–)Mar–Apr(–Aug).
Habitat Coastal sage, chaparral, disturbed or open places. Clay or sandy soils, flats and slopes in coastal sage scrub or chap­arral, sandy soils in mountains.
Elevation 0–600(–800) m. (0–2000(–2600) ft.) 100–1100(–1500) m. (300–3600(–4900) ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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from FNA
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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Discussion

Camissoniopsis robusta occurs in coastal San Diego County, California, and coastal northwestern Baja California, south to the vicinity of El Rosario; also on Guadalupe, San Clemente, Santa Catalina, and Santa Cruz (rare) islands. P. H. Raven (1969) determined C. robusta to be self-compatible and primarily autogamous. Based on the intermediate morphology of this hexaploid, Raven suggested that it was derived from two species with which it occurs nearly throughout its rather limited range, the tetraploid C. intermedia (2n = 28) and the diploid C. lewisii (2n = 14).

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

Camissoniopsis ignota is most common in clay fields and slopes at low elevations, but occasional on sandy soil and higher in the mountains in the Coast Ranges and bordering valleys from Yolo County, California, south to the southern end of the Sierra San Miguel, in Baja California, usually away from the immediate coast and barely reaching the margins of the desert. P. H. Raven (1969) determined C. ignota to be self-compatible and primarily autogamous.

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

Source FNA vol. 10. FNA vol. 10.
Parent taxa Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Camissoniopsis Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Camissoniopsis
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. pallida
C. bistorta, C. cheiranthifolia, C. confusa, C. guadalupensis, C. hardhamiae, C. hirtella, C. intermedia, C. lewisii, C. luciae, C. micrantha, C. pallida, C. robusta
Synonyms Camissonia robusta Oenothera micrantha var. ignota, Camissonia ignota, O. hirta var. ignota, O. ignota
Name authority (P. H. Raven) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 205. (2007) (Jepson) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 205. (2007)
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