Physaria douglasii subsp. tuplashensis |
Brassicaceae tribe Physarieae |
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white bluffs bladderpod |
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Habit | Annuals, biennials, perennials, or subshrubs; eglandular. | |
Cauline leaves | imbricate, blade sometimes orbicular. |
petiolate, sessile, or subsessile; blade base usually not auriculate (except Paysonia), margins entire, dentate, or sinuate. |
Trichomes | usually short-stalked, subsessile, or sessile, sometimes long-stalked, stellate, scalelike, subdendritic, or forked, sometimes mixed with simple ones. |
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Racemes | ebracteate, often elongated in fruit. |
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Flowers | actinomorphic; sepals erect, spreading, ascending, or reflexed, lateral pair seldom saccate basally; petals white, yellow, lavender, purple, violet, orange, or brown [pink], claw present, often distinct; filaments unappendaged, not winged; pollen (3 or) 4–11-colpate. |
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Fruit(s) | valves: trichomes stalked. |
silicles or siliques, dehiscent, unsegmented, terete, latiseptate, or angustiseptate; ovules 2–100 per ovary; style usually distinct; stigma entire or strongly 2-lobed. |
Seeds | biseriate, uniseriate, or aseriate; cotyledons accumbent or incumbent. |
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Physaria douglasii subsp. tuplashensis |
Brassicaceae tribe Physarieae |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jun(-Aug). | |
Habitat | Caliche soil with sagebrush | |
Elevation | 300 m (1000 ft) | |
Distribution |
WA |
North America; Mexico; South America; Asia (ne Russia) |
Discussion | Of conservation concern. It is possible that subsp. tuplashensis is simply an ecotype, or that its phenotype is in response to its severe habitat on the White Bluffs of the Columbia River. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Genera 7, species ca. 130 (7 genera, 105 species in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 635. | FNA vol. 7, p. 604. |
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Synonyms | Lesquerella tuplashensis | |
Name authority | (Rollins: Novon 12: 322. (2002) | B. L. Robinson: in A. Gray et al., Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 1(1,1): 100. (1895) |
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