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Paiute suncup

Leaves

blade usually unlobed, rarely pinnately lobed with few, small lateral lobes, terminal lobe ovate, 1.7–3.5 × 1–1.5 cm, margins subentire, oil cells on abaxial surface inconspicuous, usually pale yellowish brown, rarely darker.

blade usually unlobed, rarely pinnately lobed with few, small lateral lobes, terminal lobe narrowly ovate to ovate or, sometimes, elliptic, 1–5.5 × 0.5–3 cm, margins subentire, oil cells on abaxial surface inconspicuous, usually pale yellowish brown, rarely darker.

Flowers

petals 1.5–2 mm.

petals 1.7–5 mm.

Capsules

25–50 mm.

(10–)15–30 mm.

2n

= 14, 28.

Chylismia scapoidea subsp. macrocarpa

Chylismia scapoidea subsp. scapoidea

Phenology Flowering May–Jun. Flowering Mar–May.
Habitat On detrital clay knobs, gravelly flats. Sandy or clay flats.
Elevation 1500–2000 m. (4900–6600 ft.) 1200–2000(–2500) m. (3900–6600(–8200) ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ
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from FNA
AZ; CO; NM; NV; OR; UT; WY
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Discussion

Subspecies macrocarpa is known from northern Apache and Navajo counties and northeastern Coconino County.

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

Subspecies scapoidea is known from western Wyoming, west to Lake County, Oregon, and Elko and White Pine counties, Nevada, south to Beaver County, Utah, northern Coconino, Navajo, and Apache counties, Arizona, Sandoval and San Juan counties, New Mexico, and western Colorado; also on the headwaters of the Arkansas River in eastern Colorado (Fremont and Pueblo counties). It is the only member of sect. Chylismia that occurs east of the Continental Divide.

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

Source FNA vol. 10. FNA vol. 10.
Parent taxa Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Chylismia > sect. Chylismia > Chylismia scapoidea Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Chylismia > sect. Chylismia > Chylismia scapoidea
Sibling taxa
C. scapoidea subsp. brachycarpa, C. scapoidea subsp. scapoidea, C. scapoidea subsp. utahensis
C. scapoidea subsp. brachycarpa, C. scapoidea subsp. macrocarpa, C. scapoidea subsp. utahensis
Synonyms Oenothera scapoidea subsp. macrocarpa, Camissonia bairdii, C. scapoidea subsp. macrocarpa, C. scapoidea var. macrocarpa C. scapoidea var. seorsaa., Oenothera scapoidea var. seorsa
Name authority (P. H. Raven) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 208. (2007) unknown
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