The green links below add additional plants to the comparison table. Blue links lead to other Web sites.
enable glossary links

naked-stem beeblossom, Paiute suncup

Habit Herbs annual, glandular pubescent throughout. Herbs annual, strigillose, villous, or glandular puberulent.
Stems

several, 10–200 cm.

usually unbranched, sometimes branched from base, 3–45 cm.

Leaves

in poorly defined basal rosette and cauline;

petiole 1.8–5.5 cm;

blade unlobed, broadly cordate to ovate, 2.4–8 × 7 cm, margins sinuate-dentate, yellowish oil cells prominently lining veins abaxially.

primarily in basal rosette, cauline poorly developed or absent, 1–18 × 0.5–3.5 cm;

petiole 0.5–6.5 cm;

blade pinnately lobed or lateral lobes greatly reduced or absent, sometimes mixed on same plant, terminal lobe narrowly ovate to ovate or elliptic, 1–6.5 × 0.5–3.3 cm, margins irregularly dentate to subentire, oil cells on abaxial surface inconspicuous or conspicuous, pale yellowish brown or dark brown.

Racemes

erect, elongating in flower.

nodding, elongating in fruit.

Flowers

opening at sunrise;

buds without free tips;

floral tube 4–9 mm, with matted, villous hairs inside;

sepals 4.5–9 mm;

petals pale to dark lavender, diffusely purplish-flecked near base, white at very base, fading darker lavender, 9–14 mm;

stamens unequal, filaments of antisepalous stamens 6–12 mm, of antipetalous ones 3.5–8 mm, anthers 2 mm, glabrous;

style 14–22.5 mm, stigma exserted beyond anthers at anthesis.

opening at sunrise;

buds with or without subapical free tips less than 1 mm;

floral tube 1–4 mm, sparsely villous or glabrous inside;

sepals 1.2–5 mm;

petals bright yellow, often with red dots near base, fading pale yellow or yellowish orange, 1.5–5.5(–8) mm;

stamens unequal, filaments of antisepalous stamens 1.2–6 mm, those of antipetalous ones 0.5–4 mm, anthers 1–2.5 mm, ciliate or glabrous;

style 3–11 mm, stigma surrounded by anthers at anthesis.

Capsules

erect or ascending, clavate, 8–14 mm;

pedicel 2–3.5 mm.

ascending, clavate, 8–50 mm;

pedicel 4–20 mm.

Seeds

1–1.3 mm.

1–2 mm.

2n

= 14.

Chylismia megalantha

Chylismia scapoidea

Phenology Flowering Jun–Oct.
Habitat Rubble derived from volcanic tuff, partly on moist soil along springs.
Elevation 1200–1400 m. (3900–4600 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
NV
[BONAP county map]
w United States
[WildflowerSearch map]
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Chylismia megalantha is known from around Frenchman Drainage to French Peak and Skull Mountain in southern Nye County. P. H. Raven (1962, 1969) determined this species to be self-compatible, but outcrossing.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Subspecies 4 (4 in the flora).

P. H. Raven (1962, 1969) determined this species to be self-compatible and primarily autogamous.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Key
1. Oil cells lining veins of leaf blades abaxially usually pale yellowish brown, inconspicuous, rarely darker; leaf blades usually unlobed, rarely pinnately lobed with few, small lateral lobes, margins subentire.
→ 2
2. Capsules (10–)15–30 mm; petals 1.7–5 mm.
subsp. scapoidea
2. Capsules 25–50 mm; petals 1.5–2 mm.
subsp. macrocarpa
1. Oil cells lining veins of leaf blades abaxially dark brown, conspicuous; leaf blades pinnately lobed, lobes well developed or with few, small lateral lobes or unlobed, margins dentate.
→ 3
3. Petals 1.8–4 mm; lateral lobes of leaves often few or absent, sometimes well developed; capsules 8–20(–28) mm.
subsp. brachycarpa
3. Petals 4–5.5(–8) mm; lateral lobes of leaves usually well developed, sometimes poorly developed; capsules 16–38 mm.
subsp. utahensis
Source FNA vol. 10. FNA vol. 10.
Parent taxa Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Chylismia > sect. Chylismia Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Chylismia > sect. Chylismia
Sibling taxa
C. arenaria, C. atwoodii, C. brevipes, C. cardiophylla, C. claviformis, C. confertiflora, C. eastwoodiae, C. exilis, C. heterochroma, C. multijuga, C. munzii, C. parryi, C. scapoidea, C. specicola, C. walkeri
C. arenaria, 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. specicola, C. walkeri
Subordinate taxa
C. scapoidea subsp. brachycarpa, C. scapoidea subsp. macrocarpa, C. scapoidea subsp. scapoidea, C. scapoidea subsp. utahensis
Synonyms Oenothera heterochromas. var. megalantha, Camissonia megalantha, O. megalantha Oenothera scapoidea, Camissonia scapoidea, O. brevipes var. scapoidea
Name authority (Munz) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 207. (2007) (Torrey & A. Gray) Nuttall ex Raimann in H. G. A. Engler and K. Prantl: Nat. Pflanzenfam. 96[III,7]: 217. (1893)
Web links