Chylismia arenaria |
Chylismia exilis |
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Fortuna Range suncup, sand evening-primrose |
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Habit | Herbs perennial, sometimes facultative annual, villous, sometimes also sparsely glandular puberulent in inflorescences. | Herbs annual, glandular puberulent and sparsely villous. |
Stems | well branched, 25–180 cm. |
slender, unbranched or branched, 10–20 cm. |
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 cauline; petiole 0.3–1.8 cm; blade unlobed, narrowly ovate to elliptic, 0.3–2 × 0.3–1 cm, margins entire or inconspicuously denticulate, brownish oil cells lining veins abaxially. |
Racemes | nodding, open. |
erect, elongating in fruit. |
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 without free tips; floral tube 0.4–0.5 mm, glabrous inside; sepals 1–1.2 mm; petals yellow, fading pale lavender, 1–1.5 mm; stamens 4 (or 8), antisepalous, filaments 0.5 mm, anthers 0.5–0.7 mm, glabrous, when 8, then antipetalous ones smaller and abortive; style 1.5 mm, stigma surrounded by anthers at anthesis. |
Capsules | ascending, cylindrical, 30–44 mm; pedicel 2–5 mm. |
spreading or reflexed, clavate, 4–10 mm; pedicel 3–9 mm. |
Seeds | 0.5–0.7 mm. |
0.8 mm. |
2n | = 14. |
= 14. |
Chylismia arenaria |
Chylismia exilis |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–Apr. | Flowering Apr–Jun. |
Habitat | Sandy washes, rocky slopes, desert scrub in Sonoran Desert shrublands, usually with Ambrosia dumosa, Carnegiea, Larrea tridentata, and Prosopis. | Calcareous sand, gypseous clay flats, juniper woodlands. |
Elevation | -50–500 m. (-200–1600 ft.) | 1000–1900 m. (3300–6200 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; Mexico (Sonora)
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AZ; UT |
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.) |
Chylismia exilis, known from Kane and San Juan counties in Utah and northern Coconino and Mohave counties in Arizona, is cryptic due to its small size. It may not be as rare as assumed, since it is difficult to spot in the field. P. H. Raven (1962, 1969) determined this species to be self-compatible and autogamous. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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 exilis, Camissonia exilis |
Name authority | A. Nelson: Amer. J. Bot. 21: 575. (1934) — (as Chylisma) | (P. H. Raven) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 207. (2007) |
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