View source for Oenothera brachycarpa

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|accepted_name=Oenothera brachycarpa
|accepted_authority=A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Smithsonian Contr. Knowl.
|place=3(5): 70. 1852
|year=1852
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Lavauxia brachycarpa
|authority=(A. Gray) Britton
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=L. graminifolia
|authority=(H. Léveillé) Rose
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=L. wrightii
|authority=(A. Gray) Small
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Megapterium brachycarpum
|authority=(A. Gray) Rydberg
|rank=species
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|name=M. brachycarpum var. wrightii
|authority=(A. Gray) Moldenke
|rank=variety
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|name=Oenothera australis
|authority=(Wooton & Standley) Tidestrom
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=O. brachycarpa var. wrightii
|authority=(A. Gray) H. Léveillé
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=O. cespitosa subsp. australis
|authority=(Wooton & Standley) Munz
|rank=subspecies
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|name=O. cespitosa var. australis
|authority=(Wooton & Standley) Munz
|rank=variety
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|name=O. graminifolia
|authority=H. Léveillé
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=O. wrightii
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Pachylophus australis
|authority=Wooton & Standley
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Onagraceae;Onagraceae subfam. Onagroideae;Onagraceae tribe Onagreae;Oenothera;Oenothera sect. Megapterium;Oenothera brachycarpa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Onagraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Onagraceae subfam. Onagroideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Onagraceae tribe Onagreae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Oenothera]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Oenothera sect. Megapterium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Oenothera brachycarpa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 10
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>acaulescent or sometimes caulescent, strigillose, also hirsute, hairs often with reddish purple pustulate base, glandular puberulent distally; from a woody taproot, sometimes lateral roots producing adventitious shoots. <b>Stems</b> (when present) ascending, longer ones becoming decumbent, usually densely leafy, 0–20(–36) cm. <b>Leaves</b> in a basal rosette, sometimes also cauline, (3.1–)5–21(–34) × (0.3–)1.5–3.5(–5.3) cm; petiole (0.8–)2.5–11(–15) cm; blade usually lanceolate to elliptic, rhombic-obovate, sometimes suborbicular or linear, usually irregularly pinnatifid, some sinuses extending nearly to midrib, usually with a large terminal lobe (0.1–)1.5–2(–2.4) cm, margins erose, apex acute to obtuse or rounded. <b>Flowers</b> usually 1–3, rarely more, opening per day near sunset, weakly scented; buds with unequal free tips 1–7 mm; floral tube (90–)120–210(–220) mm; sepals 38–55 mm; petals pale yellow to yellow, fading pale orange to pink, drying lavender to purple, usually broadly rhombic-obovate, sometimes obovate, (38–)45–58(–62) mm, distal margin usually erose; filaments (16–)20–32 mm, anthers (8–)13–21 mm; style (123–)155–240(–255) mm, stigma exserted beyond anthers at anthesis. <b>Capsules</b> leathery or corky, ovoid to narrowly ellipsoid, ± winged, wings 0–3(–5) mm wide, sometimes capsule with corky thickening between wings, then capsule only 4-angled, body (12–)18–40 × 6–10 mm, dehiscent 1/4 their length; pedicel 0–3 mm. <b>Seeds</b> usually numerous, in 1 or 2 rows per locule, obovoid to subcuboid, 3–5 × 1.8–2.2 mm. <b>2n</b> = 14.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Mar–Aug.
|habitat=Rocky sites, usually on limestone, shale, or gypsum, on igneous substrates from canyons and slopes in Chihuahuan Desert scrub, grasslands, oak-pine-juniper woodlands, open sites in ponderosa pine-Douglas fir forests.
|elevation=1000–2700 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Coahuila;Durango;Sonora).
|discussion=<p>Oenotherabrachycarpa occurs from southeastern Arizona in southern Navajo, southeastern Pima, Graham, Santa Cruz, and Cochise counties, east across southern New Mexico to Val Verde and Pecos counties in trans-Pecos Texas.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Oenothera brachycarpa
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Lavauxia brachycarpa;L. graminifolia;L. wrightii;Megapterium brachycarpum;M. brachycarpum var. wrightii;Oenothera australis;O. brachycarpa var. wrightii;O. cespitosa subsp. australis;O. cespitosa var. australis;O. graminifolia;O. wrightii;Pachylophus australis
|basionyms=
|family=Onagraceae
|phenology=Flowering Mar–Aug.
|habitat=Rocky sites, usually on limestone, shale, or gypsum, on igneous substrates from canyons and slopes in Chihuahuan Desert scrub, grasslands, oak-pine-juniper woodlands, open sites in ponderosa pine-Douglas fir forests.
|elevation=1000–2700 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Coahuila;Durango;Sonora).
|reference=None
|publication title=Smithsonian Contr. Knowl.
|publication year=1852
|special status=
|source xml=https://xjsachs2@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/1f4bf54ae2f7dbd5376c45b4fe1b388e15b53086/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V10/V10_57.xml
|subfamily=Onagraceae subfam. Onagroideae
|tribe=Onagraceae tribe Onagreae
|genus=Oenothera
|section=Oenothera sect. Megapterium
|species=Oenothera brachycarpa
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