Chylismia megalantha |
Chylismia scapoidea |
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naked-stem beeblossom, Paiute suncup |
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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. |
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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. |
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Racemes | erect, elongating in flower. |
nodding, elongating in fruit. |
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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. |
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Capsules | erect or ascending, clavate, 8–14 mm; pedicel 2–3.5 mm. |
ascending, clavate, 8–50 mm; pedicel 4–20 mm. |
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Seeds | 1–1.3 mm. |
1–2 mm. |
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2n | = 14. |
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Chylismia megalantha |
Chylismia scapoidea |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Oct. | |||||||||||||
Habitat | Rubble derived from volcanic tuff, partly on moist soil along springs. | |||||||||||||
Elevation | 1200–1400 m. (3900–4600 ft.) | |||||||||||||
Distribution |
NV |
w United States
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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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 10. | FNA vol. 10. | ||||||||||||
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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) | ||||||||||||
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