Chylismia specicola |
Chylismia arenaria |
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Fortuna Range suncup, sand evening-primrose |
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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. |
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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. |
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Racemes | erect, elongating after anthesis. |
nodding, open. |
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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. |
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Capsules | spreading to ascending, oblong-cylindrical, 8–20 mm; pedicel 6–10 mm. |
ascending, cylindrical, 30–44 mm; pedicel 2–5 mm. |
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Seeds | 0.6–1 mm. |
0.5–0.7 mm. |
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2n | = 14. |
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Chylismia specicola |
Chylismia arenaria |
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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 |
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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 10. | FNA vol. 10. | ||||
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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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