Chylismia munzii |
Chylismia brevipes |
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Munz's evening primrose |
golden suncup, Mojave suncup, yellow cups |
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Habit | Herbs annual, strigillose, often densely so. | Herbs annual, moderately to densely villous, sometimes strigillose. | ||||||||
Stems | several, 8–50 cm. |
branched, 3–75 cm. |
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Leaves | 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. |
primarily in basal rosette, cauline greatly reduced when present, 6–14 × 1.5–3.5 cm; petiole 1.5–4(–11) cm; blade pinnately lobed or lateral lobes greatly reduced or absent, often mixed on same plant, terminal lobe usually ovate, rarely elliptic, 2.5–6.9 × 1.5–7 cm, margins irregularly dentate, oil cells on abaxial surface inconspicuous. |
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Racemes | nodding, not congested, elongating in mature bud. |
nodding, mostly elongating after flowers. |
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Flowers | 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. |
opening at sunrise; buds sometimes individually reflexed, without free tips or with subapical free tips 1–2 mm, or with minute, apical free tips less than 1 mm; floral tube 3–8 mm, densely short-villous inside proximally; sepals 5–9 mm; petals bright yellow, sometimes with red dots at base, fading yellow to orange or reddish, 3–18 mm; stamens subequal, filaments 3–6 mm, anthers 2.5–6 mm, ciliate; style 10–18 mm, stigma exserted beyond anthers at anthesis. |
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Capsules | widely spreading, becoming sharply reflexed, clavate, 8–24 mm; pedicel 8–28 mm. |
ascending or spreading, oblong-cylindrical, 18–92 mm; pedicel 2–20 mm. |
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Seeds | 0.8–1.6 mm. |
1–1.5 mm. |
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2n | = 14. |
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Chylismia munzii |
Chylismia brevipes |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–Jun. | |||||||||
Habitat | Mesic slopes, washes. | |||||||||
Elevation | 600–1600 m. (2000–5200 ft.) | |||||||||
Distribution |
CA; NV |
sw United States
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Discussion | 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.) |
Subspecies 3 (3 in the flora). P. H. Raven (1962, 1969) determined this species to be self-incompatible. (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 munzii, Camissonia munzii | Oenothera brevipes, Camissonia brevipes | ||||||||
Name authority | (P. H. Raven) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 207. (2007) | (A. Gray) Small: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 23: 194. (1896) — (as Chylisma) | ||||||||
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