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roughpod bladderpod

Habit Annuals, biennials, or perennials; pubescent, trichomes branched, or mixed with simple, larger ones.
Stems

decumbent to procumbent, (slender), 1–5 dm.

Basal leaves

blade (oblanceolate), 3–10 cm × 10–30 mm, margins sinuate-dentate to somewhat lobed or incised, surfaces densely pubescent.

Cauline leaves

blade obovate-elliptic to oblong, 1–4 cm × 5–20 mm, base cuneate to auriculate (narrowed toward base), margins sinuate-dentate to incised, (surfaces densely pubescent).

Flowers

sepals (green), 4–5.5 × 1.5–2 mm, (nearly acuminate), pubescent or hirsute (trichomes branched);

petals light yellow (often drying purplish), 5–9 × 4–6 mm, (claw relatively short), apex rounded;

filaments not dilated basally, (2.5–3.5 mm, anthers sagittate, 2–3 mm, glands with horn-like projections at base of filaments).

Fruiting pedicels

recurved, slightly curved, 1–3 cm, (racemes lax in fruit), densely pubescent.

Fruits

sessile, orbicular, elliptic, or cordate, 5–9 × 4–9 mm, (angustiseptate or slightly so);

valves (rounded or strongly keeled), densely pubescent, trichomes branched, sometimes with simple, larger ones;

replum oblong to nearly elliptical;

septum complete, (transparent);

ovules 14–32 per ovary, (attached in proximal 1/2);

style 1–1.5 mm;

stigma expanded.

Seeds

suborbicular (slightly longer than broad), 1–2.2 mm.

Paysonia lasiocarpa

Distribution
from FNA
TX; n Mexico
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Key
1. Annuals; trichomes simple and branched; fruits inflated, valves rounded.
subsp. lasiocarpa
1. Annuals, biennials, or perennials; trichomes usually simple, sometimes mixed with smaller, branched ones; fruits not inflated, valves somewhat to strongly keeled.
subsp. berlandieri
Source FNA vol. 7, p. 613.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Paysonia
Sibling taxa
P. auriculata, P. densipila, P. grandiflora, P. lescurii, P. lyrata, P. perforata, P. stonensis
Subordinate taxa
P. lasiocarpa subsp. berlandieri, P. lasiocarpa subsp. lasiocarpa
Synonyms Vesicaria lasiocarpa, Lesquerella lasiocarpa
Name authority (Hooker ex A. Gray) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 381. (2002)
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