Physaria chambersii |
Physaria vitulifera |
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Chambers' bladder-pod, Chambers' physaria, Chambers' twinpod, double bladderpod |
roundtip twinpod |
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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 simple or branched, (cespitose); (silvery) pubescent throughout, trichomes several-rayed, rays furcate or bifurcate, (relatively massive, smooth to few-tubercled). |
Stems | several from base, erect or decumbent (arising laterally, unbranched), 0.5–1.5 mm. |
several from base, usually decumbent to ascending, (arising laterally, unbranched, coarse), 1–2 dm. |
Basal leaves | (petiole slender); blade obovate to orbicular, 3–6 cm (width 10–20 mm), margins entire or dentate. |
blade pandurate or obovate, 3–6 cm, margins usually deeply and broadly incised, rarely subentire, (apex obtuse). |
Cauline leaves | blade spatulate, 1–2 cm (width 3–6 mm), margins entire, (apex often acute). |
blade oblanceolate to spatulate, similar to basal, (3–6 mm wide), margins entire, (apex often somewhat acute). |
Racemes | congested. |
congested, (elongated in fruit). |
Flowers | sepals narrowly lanceolate, 5–8(–9) mm; petals narrowly oblanceolate, 9–12 mm, (claw undifferentiated from blade). |
sepals oblong, 6–8 mm; petals spatulate, to 10 mm. |
Fruiting pedicels | (divaricate, slightly sigmoid), 8–15 mm. |
(usually curving upward, sigmoid), 6–10 mm. |
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). |
didymous, irregular in shape, somewhat angular, inflated, 5–7 × 6–8 mm, (papery, often rigid, base obtuse or truncate, apical sinus broad, open and deep); valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), pubescent, trichomes spreading, loose; replum oblong, often constricted, as wide as or wider than fruit, apex obtuse; ovules 4 per ovary; style 5–7 mm. |
Seeds | flattened. |
flattened. |
2n | = 8, 10, 16, 24. |
= 8, 16. |
Physaria chambersii |
Physaria vitulifera |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jul. | Flowering Apr–Jun. |
Habitat | Clay hillsides, limestone gravel, dolomite ridges, roadbanks, loose gravel, reddish clay, sagebrush and pinyon-juniper areas | Rocky hillsides, dry banks, gravel and sand, granitic slopes, soil scree, red shale |
Elevation | 1500-3200 m (4900-10500 ft) | 1600-3000 m (5200-9800 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; ID; NV; OR; UT
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CO
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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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 631. | FNA vol. 7, p. 665. |
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria |
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Synonyms | P. chambersii var. canaani, P. chambersii var. sobolifera | |
Name authority | Rollins: Rhodora 41: 403, plate 556, figs. 15–18. (1939) | Rydberg: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 28: 278. (1901) |
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