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|accepted_name=Oenothera mckelveyae
|accepted_authority=(Munz) W. L. Wagner & Hoch
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Syst. Bot. Monogr.
|place=83: 213. 2007
|year=2007
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Gaura villosa var. mckelveyae
|authority=Munz
|rank=variety
|publication_title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication_place=65: 214.  1938
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Gaura mckelveyae
|authority=(Munz) P. H. Raven & D. P. Gregory
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Onagraceae;Onagraceae subfam. Onagroideae;Onagraceae tribe Onagreae;Oenothera;Oenothera sect. Gaura;Oenothera subsect. Stipogaura;Oenothera mckelveyae
|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. Gaura]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subsection</small>[[Oenothera subsect. Stipogaura]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Oenothera mckelveyae]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 10
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>perennial, clumped, long-villous, more sparsely so distally, hairs erect, 2–4 mm, also strigillose, sometimes glabrate distally or also sparsely glandular puberulent; from twisted, woody rootstock. <b>Stems</b> ascending, branched below or just above ground, branched also proximal to inflorescences, 30–70(–120) cm. <b>Leaves</b> in a basal rosette and cauline, basal 3–17 × 0.8–2 cm, blade oblanceolate, cauline 1–6.5 × 0.1–1.5 cm, sessile, blade narrowly oblanceolate to elliptic, margins conspicuously sinuate-dentate, often undulate. <b>Inflorescences</b> slender. <b>Flowers</b> 4-merous, zygomorphic, opening near sunset; floral tube 2–3.5 mm; sepals 6–12 mm; petals white, fading dark pink to red, slightly unequal, elliptic-obovate, 7–11 mm, long-clawed; stamens presented in lower 1/2 of flower, filaments 5–9 mm, lanate at very base, anthers 2–4 mm, pollen 90–100% fertile; style 9–16 mm, stigma exserted beyond anthers at anthesis. <b>Capsules</b> reflexed, lanceoloid to narrowly ovoid, narrowly 4-winged, 8–19 × 1.5–2 mm, tapering to a sterile stipe 3–9 mm. <b>Seeds</b> (1 or)2–4, 2–3 × 1 mm, yellowish to reddish brown. <b>2n</b> = 14.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Mar–Jun.
|habitat=Sandy soil.
|elevation=0–300 m.
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico (Nuevo León;Tamaulipas).
|discussion=<p>Oenothera mckelveyae, on the Rio Grande Plain, is found in an area bounded by from Dimmit and LaSalle counties east to Karnes and Refugio counties in the north, southward through south Texas, extending to northeastern Tamaulipas and adjacent Nuevo León. P. H. Raven and D. P. Gregory (1972[1973]) found Oenothera mckelveyae to be self-incompatible.</p>
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name=Oenothera mckelveyae
|authority=(Munz) W. L. Wagner & Hoch
|rank=species
|parent rank=subsection
|synonyms=Gaura mckelveyae
|basionyms=Gaura villosa var. mckelveyae
|family=Onagraceae
|phenology=Flowering Mar–Jun.
|habitat=Sandy soil.
|elevation=0–300 m.
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico (Nuevo León;Tamaulipas).
|reference=None
|publication title=Syst. Bot. Monogr.
|publication year=2007
|special status=
|source xml=https://xjsachs2@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/e39f0e846f172941159b2045254d62d10d9823f6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V10/V10_87.xml
|subfamily=Onagraceae subfam. Onagroideae
|tribe=Onagraceae tribe Onagreae
|genus=Oenothera
|section=Oenothera sect. Gaura
|subsection=Oenothera subsect. Stipogaura
|species=Oenothera mckelveyae
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