Chylismia munzii |
Chylismia exilis |
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Munz's evening primrose |
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Habit | Herbs annual, strigillose, often densely so. | Herbs annual, glandular puberulent and sparsely villous. |
Stems | several, 8–50 cm. |
slender, unbranched or branched, 10–20 cm. |
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 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. |
Racemes | nodding, not congested, elongating in mature bud. |
erect, elongating in fruit. |
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 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. |
Capsules | widely spreading, becoming sharply reflexed, clavate, 8–24 mm; pedicel 8–28 mm. |
spreading or reflexed, clavate, 4–10 mm; pedicel 3–9 mm. |
Seeds | 0.8–1.6 mm. |
0.8 mm. |
2n | = 14. |
= 14. |
Chylismia munzii |
Chylismia exilis |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–Jun. | Flowering Apr–Jun. |
Habitat | Mesic slopes, washes. | Calcareous sand, gypseous clay flats, juniper woodlands. |
Elevation | 600–1600 m. (2000–5200 ft.) | 1000–1900 m. (3300–6200 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; NV |
AZ; UT |
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.) |
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.) |
Source | FNA vol. 10. | FNA vol. 10. |
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Synonyms | Oenothera munzii, Camissonia munzii | Oenothera exilis, Camissonia exilis |
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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