evening primrose

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English

an evening primrose flower (Oenothera erythrosepala)

Noun

evening primrose (plural evening primroses)

  1. Any of various flowering plants of the genus Oenothera or Camissonia, in the family Onagraceae,
    1. especially the common evening primrose, Oenothera biennis.
  2. Any plant of family Onagraceae, the evening primrose family.
    • 2011 June 7, Marc T. J. Johnson, Richard G. FitzJohn, Stacey D. Smith, Mark D. Rausher, Sarah P. Otto, “LOSS OF SEXUAL RECOMBINATION AND SEGREGATION IS ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED DIVERSIFICATION IN EVENING PRIMROSES”, in Evolution, volume 65, number 11:
      The evening primrose plant family (Onagraceae) offers an ideal system to test predictions relating to the role of sexual recombination and segregation on diversification (Fig. 1). In many evening primrose species […] .
    • 2012, E. I. HERSCH‐GREEN, H. MYBURG, M. T. J. JOHNSON, “Adaptive molecular evolution of a defence gene in sexual but not functionally asexual evening primroses”, in Journal of Evolutionary Biology, volume 25, number 8:
      Specifically, we ask whether sexual evening primrose plant lineages (Onagraceae) have faster rates of adaptive molecular evolution and altered gene expression of a class I chitinase, a gene implicated in defence against pathogens, than functionally asexual evening primrose lineages.
    • 2012, SK Mitra, TKS Irenaeus, MR Gurung…, “Taxonomy and importance of Myrtaceae”, in Symposium on Guava, actahort.org:
      The Myrtaceae is a dicot family in the class Rosidae which also includes the rose and mallow families and falls into the order Myrtales along with the families Lathraceae, Punicaceae (pomegranates) and Onagraceae (evening primroses)

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