Chylismia walkeri |
Chylismia specicola |
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Walker's evening-primrose, Walker's sun-cup |
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Habit | Herbs annual or short-lived perennial, villous, usually densely so proximally, less dense to glabrate distally, sometimes hairs somewhat appressed and shorter on leaves, also sometimes glandular puberulent on distal parts. | Herbs perennial, base sometimes woody, glabrous or sparsely villous proximally. | ||||||||
Stems | slender, unbranched or branched from base, 10–60 cm. |
with several divergent branches from base, 10–50 cm. |
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Leaves | in basal rosette and/or cauline, often purple-dotted, 2–22 × 0.4–3.5 cm; petiole 0.4–8 cm; blade pinnately lobed, sometimes lateral lobes greatly reduced or absent and blade reduced to terminal lobe only, terminal lobe oblong or cordate to ovate, 1–5 × 0.5–3.2 cm, margins serrate, brown oil cells prominently lining veins abaxially. |
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. |
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Racemes | erect, elongating after anthesis. |
erect, elongating after anthesis. |
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Flowers | opening at sunrise; buds individually reflexed, with apical free tips less than 1 mm; floral tube 0.5–1.5 mm, glabrous or sparsely villous inside; sepals 1.5–5 mm; petals bright yellow, fading pale orange or lavender, 1–6 mm; stamens unequal, filaments of antisepalous stamens 1–3 mm, those of antipetalous ones 0.3–2 mm, anthers 0.5–2 mm, glabrous or sparsely ciliate; style 1.5–6 mm, stigma surrounded by anthers at anthesis. |
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. |
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Capsules | spreading or ascending, oblong-cylindrical, 11–45 mm; pedicel 5–30 mm. |
spreading to ascending, oblong-cylindrical, 8–20 mm; pedicel 6–10 mm. |
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Seeds | 0.6–1.2 mm. |
0.6–1 mm. |
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Chylismia walkeri |
Chylismia specicola |
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Distribution | sw United States
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Arizona |
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Discussion | Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). P. H. Raven (1962, 1969) determined this species to be self-incompatible and primarily autogamous. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 10. | FNA vol. 10. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Chylismia > sect. Chylismia | Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Chylismia > sect. Chylismia | ||||||||
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Synonyms | Camissonia walkeri, Oenothera walkeri | Oenothera specicola, Camissonia specicola | ||||||||
Name authority | A. Nelson: Bot. Gaz. 56: 66. (1913) — (as Chylisma) | (P. H. Raven) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 208. (2007) | ||||||||
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