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Fortuna Range suncup, sand evening-primrose

Habit Herbs annual, succulent, glabrous, glandular puberulent, or villous proximally. Herbs perennial, sometimes facultative annual, villous, sometimes also sparsely glandular puberulent in inflorescences.
Stems

unbranched or branched from base, 3–30 cm.

well branched, 25–180 cm.

Leaves

primarily in basal rosette and also cauline;

petiole 0.5–8 cm;

blade usually not pinnately lobed or, if so, then lateral lobes greatly reduced, terminal lobe oblanceolate to cordate, 0.8–7.5 × 0.4–3 cm, margins entire or sparsely denticulate, pale brown oil cells 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

nodding, elongating after anthesis.

nodding, open.

Flowers

opening at sunrise;

buds without subapical free tips;

floral tube 2–4.5 mm, villous inside proximally;

sepals 3–8 mm;

petals bright yellow, with red dots near base, fading pale yellow or yellowish orange, 5.5–9 mm;

stamens unequal, filaments of antisepalous stamens 3–8 mm, those of antipetalous ones 2.8–5.5 mm, anthers 2–4 mm, ciliate;

style 10–17 mm, 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

erect, spreading, or slightly reflexed, clavate, 18–40 mm;

pedicel 4–28 mm.

ascending, cylindrical, 30–44 mm;

pedicel 2–5 mm.

Seeds

1.2–1.7 mm.

0.5–0.7 mm.

2n

= 14.

= 14.

Chylismia eastwoodiae

Chylismia arenaria

Phenology Flowering Apr–Jun. Flowering Mar–Apr.
Habitat Clay flats, on gray, alkaline, marine-deposited gumbo, sandy draws. Sandy washes, rocky slopes, desert scrub in Sonoran Desert shrublands, usually with Ambrosia dumosa, Carnegiea, Larrea tridentata, and Prosopis.
Elevation 1200–1800 m. (3900–5900 ft.) -50–500 m. (-200–1600 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CO; UT
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from FNA
AZ; CA; Mexico (Sonora)
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Discussion

Chylismia eastwoodiae is known from Mesa County, Colorado, and from Emery County south to San Juan County, Utah. P. H. Raven (1962, 1969) suspected this species to be self-incompatible, but did not have data to make the determination.

(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.
Parent taxa Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Chylismia > sect. Chylismia Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Chylismia > sect. Lignothera
Sibling taxa
C. arenaria, C. atwoodii, C. brevipes, C. cardiophylla, C. claviformis, C. confertiflora, C. exilis, C. heterochroma, C. megalantha, C. multijuga, C. munzii, C. parryi, C. scapoidea, C. specicola, C. walkeri
C. atwoodii, C. brevipes, C. cardiophylla, C. claviformis, C. confertiflora, C. eastwoodiae, C. exilis, C. heterochroma, C. megalantha, C. multijuga, C. munzii, C. parryi, C. scapoidea, C. specicola, C. walkeri
Synonyms Oenothera scapoidea var. eastwoodiae, Camissonia eastwoodiae, O. eastwoodiae Camissonia arenaria, Oenothera arenaria, O. cardiophylla var. longituba, O. cardiophylla var. splendens
Name authority (Munz) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 207. (2007) A. Nelson: Amer. J. Bot. 21: 575. (1934) — (as Chylisma)
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