Chylismia claviformis subsp. lancifolia |
Chylismia claviformis subsp. funerea |
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clavate fruit primrose |
clavate fruit primrose |
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Habit | Herbs strigillose proximally, glabrous and often glaucous distally. | Herbs strigillose proximally, often densely so. |
Stems | 5–60 cm. |
6–60 cm. |
Leaves | blade lateral lobes usually poorly developed or absent, terminal lobe lanceolate, to 5 × 2.8 cm, margins irregularly serrate-dentate. |
blade lateral lobes usually present, but often poorly developed, sometimes absent, terminal lobe ovate to cordate, to 8 × 4.5 cm, margins dentate. |
Flowers | usually opening at sunset; buds usually without free tips, sometimes with apical free tips less than 1 mm; floral tube orange-brown inside, 3.5–6 mm; petals bright yellow, sometimes red-dotted in proximal 1/2, fading pale orange, 3.5–7 mm. |
opening at sunset; buds usually with conspicuous, subapical free tips; floral tube orange-brown inside, 3–5.5 mm; petals white, often fading purple, 3.5–7.5 mm. |
2n | = 14. |
= 14. |
Chylismia claviformis subsp. lancifolia |
Chylismia claviformis subsp. funerea |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jul. | Flowering Feb–May. |
Habitat | Sandy slopes and flats, often with Artemisia tridentata or Ericameria. | Dry slopes, flats, with Ambrosia dumosa and Larrea tridentata. |
Elevation | 600–1700(–1900) m. (2000–5600(–6200) ft.) | -80–900 m. (-300–3000 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; NV |
CA |
Discussion | Subspecies lancifolia is known from east of the Sierra Nevada in southern Mono and Inyo counties, California, and adjacent Mineral County, Nevada. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Subspecies funerea is known from Eureka and Saline valleys, and the region of Death Valley, Inyo County, and northernmost San Bernardino County. It intergrades with subspp. aurantiaca and claviformis; sometimes it hybridizes with Chylismia brevipes subsp. brevipes and C. munzii. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 10. | FNA vol. 10. |
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Synonyms | C. lancifolia, Camissonia claviformis subsp. lancifolia, C. claviformis var. lancifolia, Oenothera claviformis subsp. lancifolia | Oenothera claviformis subsp. funerea, Camissonia claviformis subsp. funerea, C. claviformis var. funerea |
Name authority | (A. Heller) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 206. (2007) | (P. H. Raven) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 206. (2007) |
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