Paysonia lasiocarpa |
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roughpod bladderpod |
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Habit | Annuals, biennials, or perennials; pubescent, trichomes branched, or mixed with simple, larger ones. | ||||
Stems | decumbent to procumbent, (slender), 1–5 dm. |
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Basal leaves | blade (oblanceolate), 3–10 cm × 10–30 mm, margins sinuate-dentate to somewhat lobed or incised, surfaces densely pubescent. |
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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). |
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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). |
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Fruiting pedicels | recurved, slightly curved, 1–3 cm, (racemes lax in fruit), densely pubescent. |
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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. |
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Seeds | suborbicular (slightly longer than broad), 1–2.2 mm. |
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Paysonia lasiocarpa |
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Distribution |
TX; n Mexico |
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Discussion | Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 613. | ||||
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Synonyms | Vesicaria lasiocarpa, Lesquerella lasiocarpa | ||||
Name authority | (Hooker ex A. Gray) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 381. (2002) | ||||
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