Chylismia atwoodii |
Chylismia arenaria |
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Fortuna Range suncup, sand evening-primrose |
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Habit | Herbs annual, glandular puberulent. | Herbs perennial, sometimes facultative annual, villous, sometimes also sparsely glandular puberulent in inflorescences. |
Stems | several, 5–150 cm. |
well branched, 25–180 cm. |
Leaves | in poorly defined basal rosette and cauline; petiole 0.7–3.4 cm; blade unlobed, broadly ovate to oblong-ovate, elliptic, or subcordate, 1.2–7.6 × 0.8–5.5 cm, margins serrulate to serrate-denticulate, brown oil cells prominently lining veins abaxially. |
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. |
Racemes | erect, elongating in flower. |
nodding, open. |
Flowers | opening at sunrise; buds without free tips; floral tube 0.6–1 mm; sepals 5–7 mm; petals purple, fading darker purple, 7–14 mm; stamens 4 + 4, unequal, anthers 1.5–2 mm, glabrous, stigma exserted beyond anthers at anthesis. |
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. |
Capsules | spreading to reflexed, clavate, 11–25 mm; pedicel 3–5 mm. |
ascending, cylindrical, 30–44 mm; pedicel 2–5 mm. |
Seeds | 1.5–1.8 mm. |
0.5–0.7 mm. |
2n | = 14. |
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Chylismia atwoodii |
Chylismia arenaria |
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Phenology | Flowering Aug–Nov. | Flowering Mar–Apr. |
Habitat | Open slopes in desert shrub communities, on clay soil. | Sandy washes, rocky slopes, desert scrub in Sonoran Desert shrublands, usually with Ambrosia dumosa, Carnegiea, Larrea tridentata, and Prosopis. |
Elevation | 1100–1600 m. (3600–5200 ft.) | -50–500 m. (-200–1600 ft.) |
Distribution |
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AZ; CA; Mexico (Sonora)
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Discussion | Chylismia atwoodii is known only from eastern Kane County, and only from a few collections, so is still poorly characterized morphologically, but clearly distinct among the purple-petaled species. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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.) |
Source | FNA vol. 10. | FNA vol. 10. |
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Synonyms | Camissonia atwoodii | Camissonia arenaria, Oenothera arenaria, O. cardiophylla var. longituba, O. cardiophylla var. splendens |
Name authority | (Cronquist) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 205. (2007) | A. Nelson: Amer. J. Bot. 21: 575. (1934) — (as Chylisma) |
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