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bladderpod, twinpod

Habit Herbs perennial, usually pubescent; caudices present.
Basal leaves

rosulate;

margins entire, dentate, or pinnatifid, usually petiolate.

Cauline leaves

bases not auriculate.

Inflorescences

bracts 0 or rarely basally with bracts.

Flowers

sepals erect or spreading, oblong to ovate, saccate;

petals broadly ovate or spatulate; > sepals, usually yellow, clawed or not, nectar glands confluent or lateral;

stamens 6, tetradynamous;

anthers obtuse;

ovules 4–28(40) per ovary;

septa complete or perforate, usually with apical midvein extending to center;

styles distinct;

stigmas entire.

Fruits

dehiscent silicles, latiseptate, or angustiseptate, inflated or not, globose, ellipsoid, oblong; ovoid, or didymous; terete, unsegmented;

valves not torulose; replums rounded.

Seeds

biseriate, often suborbicular, flattened, lenticular or plump, mucilaginous or not when wetted; wingless or rarely winged or margined;

cotyledons accumbent.

Trichomes

stellate or scurfy; short-stalked or sessile.

Physaria parviflora

Physaria

Distribution
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Discussion

Asia, North America, South America. 106 species; 6 species treated in Flora.

Recent work has shown that Lesquerella is indistinct from the genus Physaria, and both genera have been united under Physaria.

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