Physaria fendleri |
Physaria lepidota |
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Fendler bladderpod, Fendler's bladderpod |
Kane County twinpod |
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Habit | Perennials; caudex branched, (sometimes woody at base); densely (silvery) pubescent, trichomes (sessile or short-stalked), several-rayed, rays not furcate, fused (webbed) ca. 1/2 their length, (tuberculate throughout or tubercles scarce or absent over center). | Perennials; caudex simple, (with deep roots, thickened); densely (silvery) pubescent throughout (densely covering leaves with several appressed layers), less dense on stems, trichomes (stellate-scalelike), rays fused (webbed) in proximal 1/2 or to tips, (umbonate, nearly smooth to moderately tuberculate). | ||||
Stems | several from base, erect or laterally decumbent, (usually unbranched), (0.3–)0.5–2.5(–4) dm. |
simple from base, erect or outer ones slightly decumbent toward base, (from below or in basal leaves, unbranched), (0.5–)0.8–1.6(–2) dm. |
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Basal leaves | blade linear to somewhat elliptic, 1–4(–8) cm, margins entire or coarsely dentate. |
(erect, petiole long, slender); blade spatulate to broadly oblanceolate, (3–)5–7(–12) cm, (base gradually tapering to petiole), margins entire, (apex rounded or obtuse). |
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Cauline leaves | (shortly petiolate); blade usually linear to narrowly oblanceolate, rarely elliptic to rhombic, 0.5–2.5 cm, (base narrowing to petiole), margins entire or remotely dentate (sometimes involute). |
blade oblanceolate, similar to basal, (base cuneate), margins entire. |
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Racemes | loose to somewhat dense. |
dense. |
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Flowers | sepals elliptic to oblong, 5–8 mm, (lateral pair not saccate, median pair often thickened apically, ± cucullate); petals (usually orange or orange-yellow at junction of blade and claw, sometimes also with orange guidelines), obdeltate to obovate, 8–12 mm, (claw relatively short). |
sepals (erect), linear to linear-oblong, somewhat boat-shaped, 7–10 mm; petals (erect at anthesis), lingulate, 11–15 mm, (claw undifferentiated from blade). |
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Fruiting pedicels | (divaricate-spreading to erect, usually straight or slightly curved, occasionally sigmoid), 8–20(–40) mm. |
(divaricate-ascending, straight or slightly curved), 10–15 mm. |
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Fruits | globose, broadly ellipsoid, or ovoid, not or slightly inflated, 5–8 mm, (firm, apex usually acute); valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence, often reddish in age), glabrous throughout; replum as wide as or wider than fruit; ovules (12–)20–32(–40) per ovary; style (2–)3–6 mm. |
(purplish in age), strongly didymous, semiorbicular, highly inflated, 10–18 × 14–19 mm, (papery), basal sinus usually shallow, rarely absent, apical sinus deep, narrowly V-shaped; valves retaining seeds after dehiscence, sides flat, back rounded, margins keeled, base and apex obtuse; replum narrowly oblong to linear, as wide as or wider than fruit, base slightly narrowed, apex obtusely rounded; ovules 4 per ovary; style 3–5 mm, (slender). |
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Seeds | flattened. |
slightly flattened. |
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2n | = 12, 14, 24. |
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Physaria fendleri |
Physaria lepidota |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–May. | |||||
Habitat | Limestone outcrops, gypseous hills, gravels, sandy washes, rocky slopes, bluffs, shallow drainage areas, plains and desert shrub areas | |||||
Elevation | 100-2000 m (300-6600 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
AZ; CO; KS; NM; OK; TX; UT; Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León)
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UT |
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Discussion | In dry areas, Physaria fendleri may flower following suitable rains at any time of the year. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 636. | FNA vol. 7, p. 648. | ||||
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | ||||
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Synonyms | Vesicaria fendleri, Alyssum fendleri, Alyssum stenophyllum, Lesquerella fendleri, Lesquerella foliacea, Lesquerella praecox, Lesquerella stenophylla, Vesicaria stenophylla, Vesicaria stenophylla var. diffusa, Vesicaria stenophylla var. humilis, Vesicaria stenophylla var. procera | |||||
Name authority | (A. Gray) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 323. (2002) | Rollins: Brittonia 33: 335, figs. 1, 2. (1981) | ||||
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