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Oenothera tubicula subsp. tubicula

Calylophus tubicula

(synonym of Oenothera tubicula)
Photo is of parent taxon
Habit Herbs short-lived perennial, glandular puberulent; from a stout taproot.
Stems

1–many, unbranched to densely branched, decumbent to erect, 4–53 cm.

Leaves

0.7–4.6 × 0.1–1.2 cm, sometimes fascicles of small leaves 0.2–1.5 cm present in non-flowering axils;

petiole 0–0.2 cm;

blade linear to ovate or obovate, base attenuate, margins entire, apex acute.

Flowers

usually several per stem opening per day near sunrise;

buds with free tips 0.5–2 mm;

floral tube 5–25(–33) mm, funnelform in distal 1/2 or more;

sepals 3–13 mm;

petals yellow, fading pale pink or pale purple, 5–20(–25) mm;

filaments 1–6 mm, anthers 2–7 mm, pollen 85–100% fertile;

style 9–30(–40) mm, stigma yellow, quadrangular, usually exserted beyond anthers.

Capsules

8–20 × 1.5–2.5 mm, hard, promptly dehiscent throughout their length.

Seeds

obovoid, 1–1.4 mm.

2n

= 14.

Oenothera tubicula subsp. tubicula

Calylophus tubicula
Phenology Flowering Apr–Aug.
Habitat Colonial, primarily on limestone soil, in flat arid grasslands, with Larrea and Yucca.
Elevation 600–1400 m. (2000–4600 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
NM; TX; Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas)
from USDA
sw United States; sc United States; n Mexico
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Discussion

Subspecies tubicula is known from Guadalupe County, New Mexico, south in the western side of the Pecos River drainage to western Texas, where it occurs from Culberson County east to Howard County, thence south through Brewster, Presidio, and Terrell counties, and probably most of central Coahuila, to northern Zacatecas, southwestern Nuevo León, and southwestern Tamaulipas.

(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. Calylophus > subsect. Salpingia > Oenothera tubicula Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Oenothera > sect. Calylophus > subsect. Salpingia
Sibling taxa
O. acutissima, O. albicaulis, O. argillicola, O. arida, O. arizonica, O. biennis, O. boquillensis, O. brachycarpa, O. calcicola, O. californica, O. canescens, O. capillifolia, O. cavernae, O. cespitosa, O. cinerea, O. clelandii, O. coloradensis, O. cordata, O. coronopifolia, O. coryi, O. curtiflora, O. curtissii, O. deltoides, O. demareei, O. dodgeniana, O. drummondii, O. elata, O. engelmannii, O. falfurriae, O. filiformis, O. filipes, O. flava, O. fruticosa, O. gaura, O. gayleana, O. glaucifolia, O. glazioviana, O. grandiflora, O. grandis, O. harringtonii, O. hartwegii, O. havardii, O. heterophylla, O. hispida, O. howardii, O. humifusa, O. jamesii, O. kunthiana, O. laciniata, O. lavandulifolia, O. lindheimeri, O. linifolia, O. longissima, O. macrocarpa, O. mckelveyae, O. mexicana, O. nealleyi, O. neomexicana, O. nutans, O. nuttallii, O. oakesiana, O. organensis, O. pallida, O. parviflora, O. patriciae, O. perennis, O. pilosella, O. platanorum, O. podocarpa, O. primiveris, O. psammophila, O. pubescens, O. rhombipetala, O. riparia, O. rosea, O. serrulata, O. sessilis, O. simulans, O. sinuosa, O. spachiana, O. speciosa, O. stricta, O. suffrutescens, O. suffulta, O. tetraptera, O. texensis, O. toumeyi, O. triangulata, O. triloba, O. villosa, O. wolfii, O. xylocarpa
Subordinate taxa
O. tubicula subsp. tubicula
Synonyms Galpinsia carlsbadiana, O. tubicula var. demissa, O. ×serrulatoides Calylophus tubiculus, Galpinsia tubicula, O. hartwegii var. tubicula
Name authority unknown A. Gray: Smithsonian Contr. Knowl. 3(5): 71. (1852)
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