Chylismia arenaria |
Chylismia brevipes |
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Fortuna Range suncup, sand evening-primrose |
golden suncup, Mojave suncup, yellow cups |
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Habit | Herbs perennial, sometimes facultative annual, villous, sometimes also sparsely glandular puberulent in inflorescences. | Herbs annual, moderately to densely villous, sometimes strigillose. | ||||||||
Stems | well branched, 25–180 cm. |
branched, 3–75 cm. |
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Leaves | cauline, often mostly toward base; petiole 3–6 cm; blade cordate-deltate, 2.5–4(–6) × 2.5–4(–6) cm, smaller distally, margins coarsely dentate. |
primarily in basal rosette, cauline greatly reduced when present, 6–14 × 1.5–3.5 cm; petiole 1.5–4(–11) cm; blade pinnately lobed or lateral lobes greatly reduced or absent, often mixed on same plant, terminal lobe usually ovate, rarely elliptic, 2.5–6.9 × 1.5–7 cm, margins irregularly dentate, oil cells on abaxial surface inconspicuous. |
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Racemes | nodding, open. |
nodding, mostly elongating after flowers. |
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Flowers | floral tube 18–40 mm, finely pubescent inside; sepals 8–15 mm; petals bright to pale yellow, 8–20 mm; filaments 5–9 mm, anthers 5–8 mm; style 30–58 mm, stigma exserted beyond anthers at anthesis. |
opening at sunrise; buds sometimes individually reflexed, without free tips or with subapical free tips 1–2 mm, or with minute, apical free tips less than 1 mm; floral tube 3–8 mm, densely short-villous inside proximally; sepals 5–9 mm; petals bright yellow, sometimes with red dots at base, fading yellow to orange or reddish, 3–18 mm; stamens subequal, filaments 3–6 mm, anthers 2.5–6 mm, ciliate; style 10–18 mm, stigma exserted beyond anthers at anthesis. |
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Capsules | ascending, cylindrical, 30–44 mm; pedicel 2–5 mm. |
ascending or spreading, oblong-cylindrical, 18–92 mm; pedicel 2–20 mm. |
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Seeds | 0.5–0.7 mm. |
1–1.5 mm. |
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2n | = 14. |
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Chylismia arenaria |
Chylismia brevipes |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–Apr. | |||||||||
Habitat | Sandy washes, rocky slopes, desert scrub in Sonoran Desert shrublands, usually with Ambrosia dumosa, Carnegiea, Larrea tridentata, and Prosopis. | |||||||||
Elevation | -50–500 m. (-200–1600 ft.) | |||||||||
Distribution |
AZ; CA; Mexico (Sonora)
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sw United States
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Discussion | Chylismia arenaria is known from the foot of the Needles in Mohave County, Arizona, and from the north end of the Salton Sea, Riverside County, California, southeastward to the Tinajas Atlas Range, Arizona, and Sonora, Mexico. P. H. Raven (1962, 1969) determined C. arenaria to be self-compatible, but primarily outcrossing. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Subspecies 3 (3 in the flora). P. H. Raven (1962, 1969) determined this species to be self-incompatible. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 10. | FNA vol. 10. | ||||||||
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Synonyms | Camissonia arenaria, Oenothera arenaria, O. cardiophylla var. longituba, O. cardiophylla var. splendens | Oenothera brevipes, Camissonia brevipes | ||||||||
Name authority | A. Nelson: Amer. J. Bot. 21: 575. (1934) — (as Chylisma) | (A. Gray) Small: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 23: 194. (1896) — (as Chylisma) | ||||||||
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