Chylismia exilis |
Chylismia munzii |
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Munz's evening primrose |
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Habit | Herbs annual, glandular puberulent and sparsely villous. | Herbs annual, strigillose, often densely so. |
Stems | slender, unbranched or branched, 10–20 cm. |
several, 8–50 cm. |
Leaves | 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. |
primarily in basal rosette and also cauline, 1.5–20 × 0.5–3 cm; petiole 0.5–5 cm; blade pinnately lobed, terminal lobe ovate to narrowly ovate, 1.3–6 × 0.6–3 cm, margins denticulate, brownish oil cells lining veins abaxially. |
Racemes | erect, elongating in fruit. |
nodding, not congested, elongating in mature bud. |
Flowers | 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. |
opening at sunrise; buds with or without subapical free tips; floral tube orange-brown inside, 2–3 mm, villous inside; sepals 4–7 mm; petals bright yellow, with red dots near base, fading pale yellow or yellowish orange, 3–10 mm; stamens subequal, filaments 4–8 mm, anthers 3–6 mm, ciliate; style 8–18 mm, stigma exserted beyond anthers at anthesis. |
Capsules | spreading or reflexed, clavate, 4–10 mm; pedicel 3–9 mm. |
widely spreading, becoming sharply reflexed, clavate, 8–24 mm; pedicel 8–28 mm. |
Seeds | 0.8 mm. |
0.8–1.6 mm. |
2n | = 14. |
= 14. |
Chylismia exilis |
Chylismia munzii |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jun. | Flowering Mar–Jun. |
Habitat | Calcareous sand, gypseous clay flats, juniper woodlands. | Mesic slopes, washes. |
Elevation | 1000–1900 m. (3300–6200 ft.) | 600–1600 m. (2000–5200 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; UT |
CA; NV |
Discussion | 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.) |
Chylismia munzii is known from middle elevations in the mountains at the north end, eastward from, and south of Death Valley, from Saline Valley and the Grapevine Mountains, Inyo County, California, and Yucca Flat, Nye County, Nevada, southward to the Kingston Range, San Bernardino County, California.P. H. Raven (1962, 1969) determined this species to be self-incompatible. It sometimes hybridizes with C. brevipes subsp. brevipes and C. claviformis subsp. aurantiaca. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 10. | FNA vol. 10. |
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Synonyms | Oenothera exilis, Camissonia exilis | Oenothera munzii, Camissonia munzii |
Name authority | (P. H. Raven) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 207. (2007) | (P. H. Raven) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 207. (2007) |
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