Oenothera neomexicana |
Calylophus tubicula(synonym of Oenothera tubicula) |
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New Mexico evening-primrose |
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Habit | Herbs perennial, glabrate proximally, strigillose and villous distally; from a taproot, also with lateral roots producing adventitious shoots. | |
Stems | erect or ascending, unbranched or branched, 30–60 cm. |
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Leaves | in a basal rosette and cauline, rosette weakly developed or absent, at least during flowering, 3–9 × (0.6–)1–2.5 cm; petiole 0–2 cm; blade oblong to lanceolate or narrowly ovate, margins irregularly sinuate-dentate. |
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Flowers | 1–several opening per day near sunset; buds nodding, weakly quadrangular, with free tips 0.5–4 mm; floral tube 30–50 mm; sepals 20–30 mm, not spotted; petals white, fading pink, broadly obovate, 20–30 mm; filaments 10–15 mm, anthers 8–15 mm; style 50–70 mm, stigma exserted beyond anthers at anthesis. |
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Capsules | erect or strongly ascending, not woody, straight or slightly curved, subcylindrical, obtusely 4-angled, tapering gradually from base to apex, 20–30 × 2–3 mm; sessile. |
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Seeds | numerous, in 1 row per locule, dark brown, narrowly obovoid, 1.5 mm. |
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2n | = 14. |
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Oenothera neomexicana |
Calylophus tubicula |
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Phenology | Flowering (Mar–)Jun–Jul(–Sep). | |
Habitat | Uncommon, in rocky or sandy clay or loamy soil in coniferous forest openings, stream valleys, roadsides. | |
Elevation | 1500–3300 m. (4900–10800 ft.) | |
Distribution |
AZ; NM
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sw United States; sc United States; n Mexico |
Discussion | Oenothera neomexicana is known from central to western New Mexico west of the Rio Grande Valley, except for the Organ Mountains, and eastern and central Arizona from the White Mountains south to Mount Graham and northwestward across the Mogollon Rim in Coconino and Yavapai counties. Oenothera neomexicana had been assumed to be self-incompatible (W. L. Wagner et al. 2007), but K. E. Theiss et al. (2010) determined one population sampled to be consistently self-compatible. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Subspecies 2 (1 in the flora). H. F. Towner (1977) found that Oenothera tubicula is self-incompatible and diurnal with opening times just prior to sunrise. It occurs primarily on limestone soil in arid lowlands, but occasionally in montane areas, from Guadalupe County, New Mexico, south to western Texas, northeast to Howard County, Texas, and south to northern Zacatecas, south-central Nuevo León, and southwestern Tamaulipas, 600–1800 m. Subspecies strigulosa (Towner) W. L. Wagner & Hoch is known only from rocky, open sites and canyons in relatively montane areas, sometimes in pine forests in southernmost Coahuila, south-central Nuevo León, and southeastern Tamaulipas, from 1500 to 2300 m. It differs in being strigillose on the ovary and distally on stems, leaves linear to narrowly lanceolate, and the petals fading red or purple. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 10. | FNA vol. 10. |
Parent taxa | Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Oenothera > sect. Anogra | Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Oenothera > sect. Calylophus > subsect. Salpingia |
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Synonyms | Anogra neomexicana | Calylophus tubiculus, Galpinsia tubicula, O. hartwegii var. tubicula |
Name authority | (Small) Munz: Amer. J. Bot. 18: 317. (1931) | A. Gray: Smithsonian Contr. Knowl. 3(5): 71. (1852) |
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