Physaria parviflora |
Physaria |
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bladderpod, twinpod |
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Habit | Herbs perennial, usually pubescent; caudices present. | |
Basal leaves | rosulate; margins entire, dentate, or pinnatifid, usually petiolate. |
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Cauline leaves | bases not auriculate. |
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Inflorescences | bracts 0 or rarely basally with bracts. |
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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. |
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Fruits | dehiscent silicles, latiseptate, or angustiseptate, inflated or not, globose, ellipsoid, oblong; ovoid, or didymous; terete, unsegmented; valves not torulose; replums rounded. |
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Seeds | biseriate, often suborbicular, flattened, lenticular or plump, mucilaginous or not when wetted; wingless or rarely winged or margined; cotyledons accumbent. |
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Trichomes | stellate or scurfy; short-stalked or sessile. |
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Physaria parviflora |
Physaria |
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Distribution | ||
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. |
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Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 501 Ihsan Al-Shehbaz |
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