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wing seed evening primrose, wingfruit suncup

Habit Herbs sparsely to moderately spreading hirtellous, becoming glandular puberulent distally.
Stems

slender, ascending, branching, 2–15 cm.

Leaves

0.3–3 × 0.1–0.6 cm;

petiole 0.2–0.7 cm;

blade sometimes with purple spots, narrowly lanceolate to oblanceolate.

Flowers

opening at sunrise;

floral tube 1–2 mm;

sepals often reddish green, 1.5–2.5 mm;

petals white with yellow area at base, broadly obovate, apex notched, 1.5–3 mm; episepalous staminal filaments 1–1.7 mm, epipetalous ones 0.5–1 mm, anthers 0.3–0.4 mm;

style 2.2–4 mm, stigma 1–1.5 mm diam., surrounded by anthers at anthesis.

Capsules

ascending or spreading, 12–18 × 1.2–1.6 mm;

pedicel 4–8 mm.

Seeds

1–1.5 × 0.6–0.8 mm, broader at 1 end, ends truncate (where contacting next seed in row), clavate hairs longer at one end, shortest in middle.

2n

= 14.

Chylismiella pterosperma

Phenology Flowering Apr–Jun.
Habitat Well-drained slopes, often of volcanic origin, with sagebrush and pinyon-juniper.
Elevation 700–2600 m. (2300–8500 ft.)
Distribution
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AZ; CA; ID; NV; OR; UT
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Discussion

The range of Chylismiella pterosperma, an inconspicuous and uncommon plant, centers across Nevada and extends to southeast Oregon (Lake and Malheur counties), western Utah, northwest Arizona (Coconino and Mohave counties), eastern California (Inyo County), and southern Idaho (Butte County).

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

Source FNA vol. 10.
Parent taxa Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Chylismiella
Synonyms Oenothera pterosperma, Camissonia pterosperma, Chylismia pterosperma, Sphaerostigma pterospermum
Name authority (S. Watson) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 208. (2007)
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