Physaria chambersii |
Physaria kingii |
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Chambers' bladder-pod, Chambers' physaria, Chambers' twinpod, double bladderpod |
King bladderpod, King's bladder-pod |
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Habit | Perennials; caudex usually simple, sometimes branched, (thick, cespitose); (silvery) pubescent throughout, trichomes few-rayed, rays furcate, sometimes slightly fused at base, (umbonate, lightly tuberculate to nearly smooth). | Perennials; caudex usually simple, sometimes branched, (not thickened); usually densely pubescent, trichomes (sessile or short-stalked), 3–7-rayed, rays distinct or slightly fused at base, typically furcate near base, bifurcate or 3-partite, (not to slightly umbonate, smooth or moderately to strongly tuberculate). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stems | several from base, erect or decumbent (arising laterally, unbranched), 0.5–1.5 mm. |
few to several from base, prostrate to decumbent or erect, 0.5–2(–4) dm. |
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Basal leaves | (petiole slender); blade obovate to orbicular, 3–6 cm (width 10–20 mm), margins entire or dentate. |
blade suborbicular to narrowly or broadly oblanceolate to broadly elliptic or rhombic, (1.2–)2–6(–8) cm, (base usually abruptly narrowed to petiole), margins entire, sinuate, or lobed. |
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Cauline leaves | blade spatulate, 1–2 cm (width 3–6 mm), margins entire, (apex often acute). |
(proximal petiolate, distal sessile); blade obovate or elliptic to spatulate, 0.5–2 cm, margins entire. |
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Racemes | congested. |
(usually not secund), dense, (sometimes elongated in fruit). |
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Flowers | sepals narrowly lanceolate, 5–8(–9) mm; petals narrowly oblanceolate, 9–12 mm, (claw undifferentiated from blade). |
sepals lanceolate, 4–6(–7) mm; petals (yellow, cream-yellow, cream-white, or white), obovate to oblanceolate, 6–13 mm, (claw weakly differentiated from blade). |
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Fruiting pedicels | (divaricate, slightly sigmoid), 8–15 mm. |
(erect to divaricate-ascending or recurved, erect in distal 1/3, usually sigmoid, sometimes straight or slightly curved), 4.5–10(–15) mm. |
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Fruits | (often purplish in age), didymous, subreniform, strongly inflated, 9–18 × 11–21(–30) mm, (papery, base obtuse to slightly cordate, apical sinus V-shaped or convex, open crests rounded); valves (2-keeled on side away from replum, each 3-sided, keels rounded, sides flat or slightly convex, retaining seeds after dehiscence), evenly and densely pubescent; replum oblong, as wide as or wider than fruits, apex obtuse; ovules 4–12 per ovary; style (4–)6–8 mm (exceeding sinus). |
(sessile or substipitate), subglobose, obovoid, or ellipsoid, compressed (sometimes slightly angustiseptate), 3–9 mm, (rigid, apex truncate, retuse, or rounded-acute); valves sparsely or densely pubescent, sometimes sparsely pubescent inside; (septum sometimes fenestrate, perforate, or obsolete); ovules 4–16 per ovary; style 1–9 mm. |
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Seeds | flattened. |
flattened (sometimes slightly). |
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2n | = 8, 10, 16, 24. |
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Physaria chambersii |
Physaria kingii |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jul. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Habitat | Clay hillsides, limestone gravel, dolomite ridges, roadbanks, loose gravel, reddish clay, sagebrush and pinyon-juniper areas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Elevation | 1500-3200 m (4900-10500 ft) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Distribution |
AZ; CA; ID; NV; OR; UT
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AZ; CA; ID; NV; OR; UT; nw Mexico
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Discussion | Physaria chambersii has been divided into three varieties based on whether the fruit is stipitate (var. canaani) or not, and whether the caudex elongates (var. sobolifera) or not (var. chambersii). In this species and in some others, e.g., P. newberryi, the latter character often depends on substrate and microclimate. Shifting substrates, such as moving sand and talus, often cause caudices to elongate. The species can be confused with 57. P. newberryi. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Subspecies 7 (7 in the flora). The Physaria kingii complex is in need of further study. It is widespread in the western United States, mostly in montane environments. This treatment recognizes a highly variable species with generally well-marked, geographically coherent subspecies. Hybridization may be involved in some of the subspecies, especially in subsp. kaibabensis, where molecular data indicate intra-individual genetic variation (pers. obs.). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 631. | FNA vol. 7, p. 645. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Synonyms | P. chambersii var. canaani, P. chambersii var. sobolifera | Vesicaria kingii, Lesquerella kingii | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Name authority | Rollins: Rhodora 41: 403, plate 556, figs. 15–18. (1939) | (S. Watson) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 324. (2002) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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