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Chambers' bladderpod

Oregon twinpod

Habit Plants cespitose, silvery; caudices present. Plants cespitose, silvery pubescent; with simple caudices.
Stems

arising laterally, 5–15 cm.

erect to decumbent, 10–35 cm.

Basal leaves

obovate to orbicular, 3–6 × 1–2 cm;

margins entire or dentate.

obovate, 4–6 cm, incised or toothed along petioles.

Cauline leaves

spatulate, 1–2 cm × 3–6 mm;

margins entire.

oblanceolate, 1.5–2.5 cm;

margins entire or dentate.

Inflorescences

fruiting pedicels divaricate, slightly sigmoid, 8–15 mm.

fruiting pedicels spreading, curved upward, 10–20 mm.

Flowers

sepals narrowly lanceolate, 5–8(9) mm;

petals narrowly oblanceolate, 9–12 mm, yellow;

claws undifferentiated;

ovules 4–12 per ovary;

styles (4)6–8 mm.

sepals oblong, 5–7 mm;

petals spatulate, 9–12 mm; lemon-yellow;

ovules 8 per ovary;

styles 1–2 mm.

Fruits

didymous; terete, bases obtuse to subcordate;

tips notched, pubescent, retaining seeds after dehiscence;

valves keeled and 3-angled on back; flat-sided; bladdery, strongly inflated, 1–1.5 × ~1 cm; replums oblong, obtuse at tip, 4–6 × ~1 mm; narrower than fruits.

slightly angustiseptate; terete, 10–12 mm;

tips notched;

basal sinus lacking, retaining seeds after dehiscence;

valves strongly inflated; bladdery, rounded, not angled on back; replums lanceolate, 6–8 mm; narrower than fruits; acute at tips.

Seeds

not margined.

not margined.

Trichomes

few-rayed, with umbos;

rays forked, slightly tuberculate.

stipitate, with few forked rays, tuberculate.

2n

=8, 10, 16, 24.

=8.

Physaria chambersii

Physaria oregona

Distribution
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Discussion

Loose gravel, clay hillsides, sagebrush, pinyon-juniper communities, steep road banks. Flowering Apr–Jun. 500–1400 m. BR, BW, Owy. CA, NV; southeast to AZ. Native.

Serpentine areas, rocky slopes, gravelly banks, dry hillsides. Flowering Apr–Jun. 500–1800 m. BW. ID. Native.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 501
Ihsan Al-Shehbaz
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 503
Ihsan Al-Shehbaz
Sibling taxa
P. douglasii, P. geyeri, P. kingii, P. occidentalis, P. oregona
P. chambersii, P. douglasii, P. geyeri, P. kingii, P. occidentalis
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