Oenothera hartwegii subsp. maccartii
Onagraceae subfam. onagroideae
0.6–3.5 × 0.1–0.6 cm, fascicles of small leaves to 1.5 cm usually present in axils;
blade usually narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate or oblanceolate, rarely linear, base attenuate, margins subentire or serrulate, usually crinkled-undulate or undulate.
stipules present or absent.
buds with free tips 1–6 mm;
floral tube 17–45 mm;
sepals 11–27 mm;
petals 10–30 mm;
filaments 6–12 mm, anthers 5–9 mm;
style 25–60 mm.
floral tube present or, rarely, absent;
sepals 2 or 4 (very rarely 3), deciduous with floral tube, petals, and stamens;
petals yellow, white, pink, red, rarely in combination.
= 14, 28.
Oenothera hartwegii subsp. maccartii
Onagraceae subfam. onagroideae
Subspecies maccartii occurs on the south Texas Plains and along the Rio Grande from Kinney, Milam, Uvalde, and Val Verde counties south to southeastern Coahuila, central Nuevo León, and northwestern Tamaulipas.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Genera 21, species 582 (16 genera, 246 species in the flora).
Onagroideae encompass the main lineage of the family, after the early branching of Ludwigia (R. A. Levin et al. 2003, 2004). This large and diverse lineage is distinguished by the presence of a floral tube beyond the apex of the ovary; sepals deciduous with the floral tube, petals, and stamens; pollen shed in monads (or tetrads in Chylismia sect. Lignothera and all but one species of Epilobium); ovular vascular system exclusively transseptal (R. H. Eyde 1981); ovule archesporium multicellular (H. Tobe and P. H. Raven 1996); and change in base chromosome number from x = 8 in Ludwigia to x = 10 or x = 11 at the base of Onagroideae (Raven 1979; Levin et al. 2003). Molecular work (Levin et al. 2003, 2004) substantially supports the traditional tribal classification (P. A. Munz 1965; Raven 1979, 1988); tribes are recognized to delimit major branches within the phylogeny of Onagroideae, where the branches comprise strongly supported monophyletic groups of one or more genera.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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