Habit: Annual to subshrub, from taproot; stem often thick and fleshy.
Leaf: basal and/or cauline, alternate, simple, narrowly elliptic to narrowly lanceolate, pinnately lobed to occasionally entire.
Inflorescence: loose wand-like spike.
Flower: opening at dawn; hypanthium short, +- with a lobed, red-brown, fleshy disk within; sepals 4, reflexed (occasionally 2--3 remaining adherent); petals 4, yellow, finely flecked with red near base, this area not ultraviolet reflective, remainder of petals strongly so, fading orange-red; longer stamens opposite sepals, anthers attached at middle, pollen grains 3-angled; stigma +- hemispheric or cylindric, generally > anthers and cross-pollinated, or +- = anthers and self-pollinated.
Fruit: straight to curved, sessile.
Seed: in 1 row per chamber, narrowly obovoid, finely papillate, generally purple-spotted.
Species In Genus: 4 species: 3 in Baja California, 1 from west-central California to western and southern Arizona, northwestern Mexico.
Etymology: (Greek: well lobed)
Note: Incl in
Camissonia in TJM (1993).
Jepson eFlora Author: Warren L. Wagner
Reference: [Wagner et al. 2007 Syst Bot Monogr 83:1--240]
Unabridged Reference: Raven 1969 Contr US Natl Herb 37:161--396Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)
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