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Fortuna Range suncup, sand evening-primrose

Habit Herbs perennial, base sometimes woody, glabrous or sparsely villous proximally. Herbs perennial, sometimes facultative annual, villous, sometimes also sparsely glandular puberulent in inflorescences.
Stems

with several divergent branches from base, 10–50 cm.

well branched, 25–180 cm.

Leaves

primarily in basal rosette and cauline, 3–20 × 0.7–2.5 cm;

petiole 0.5–4 cm;

blade pinnately or bipinnately lobed, terminal lobe ovate to elliptic, 0.4–2.5 × 0.3–1.5 cm, margins irregularly serrate, dark brown oil cells prominently lining veins abaxially.

cauline, often mostly toward base;

petiole 3–6 cm;

blade cordate-deltate, 2.5–4(–6) × 2.5–4(–6) cm, smaller distally, margins coarsely dentate.

Racemes

erect, elongating after anthesis.

nodding, open.

Flowers

opening at sunrise;

buds individually reflexed, with apical free tips less than 1 mm;

floral tube 1.5–2 mm, glabrous inside;

sepals 2–5 mm;

petals bright yellow, with red dots near base, fading pale lavender, 2–6 mm;

stamens unequal, filaments of antisepalous stamens 1.5–3 mm, those of antipetalous ones 1–2 mm, anthers 1.2–2 mm, glabrous;

style 4–7 mm, stigma surrounded by anthers at anthesis.

floral tube 18–40 mm, finely pubescent inside;

sepals 8–15 mm;

petals bright to pale yellow, 8–20 mm;

filaments 5–9 mm, anthers 5–8 mm;

style 30–58 mm, stigma exserted beyond anthers at anthesis.

Capsules

spreading to ascending, oblong-cylindrical, 8–20 mm;

pedicel 6–10 mm.

ascending, cylindrical, 30–44 mm;

pedicel 2–5 mm.

Seeds

0.6–1 mm.

0.5–0.7 mm.

2n

= 14.

Chylismia specicola

Chylismia arenaria

Phenology Flowering Mar–Apr.
Habitat Sandy washes, rocky slopes, desert scrub in Sonoran Desert shrublands, usually with Ambrosia dumosa, Carnegiea, Larrea tridentata, and Prosopis.
Elevation -50–500 m. (-200–1600 ft.)
Distribution
Arizona
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AZ; CA; Mexico (Sonora)
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Discussion

Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).

P. H. Raven (1962, 1969) thought that this species is most likely self-compatible but primarily outcrossing.

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

Chylismia arenaria is known from the foot of the Needles in Mohave County, Arizona, and from the north end of the Salton Sea, Riverside County, California, southeastward to the Tinajas Atlas Range, Arizona, and Sonora, Mexico. P. H. Raven (1962, 1969) determined C. arenaria to be self-compatible, but primarily outcrossing.

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

Key
1. Leaf blades and styles glabrous; herbs ± woody at base.
subsp. specicola
1. Leaf blades and styles villous, at least at base; herbs not woody.
subsp. hesperia
Source FNA vol. 10. FNA vol. 10.
Parent taxa Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Chylismia > sect. Chylismia Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Chylismia > sect. Lignothera
Sibling taxa
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. scapoidea, C. walkeri
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. scapoidea, C. specicola, C. walkeri
Subordinate taxa
C. specicola subsp. hesperia, C. specicola subsp. specicola
Synonyms Oenothera specicola, Camissonia specicola Camissonia arenaria, Oenothera arenaria, O. cardiophylla var. longituba, O. cardiophylla var. splendens
Name authority (P. H. Raven) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 208. (2007) A. Nelson: Amer. J. Bot. 21: 575. (1934) — (as Chylisma)
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