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cobre bladder-pod

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Kaibab bladderpod

Habit Plants ± erect or ascending; trichomes tuberculate throughout, center low-mounded. Plants decumbent to ascending; trichomes (no information available).
Basal leaves

blade margins entire.

blade margins entire.

Racemes

secund, usually elongated and loose in fruit.

not usually secund, hardly elongated in fruit.

Fruiting pedicels

curved (recurved) or slightly sigmoid.

(divaricate-ascending), straight or slightly sigmoid.

Fruits

as wide as or longer than wide, apex rounded-acute;

valves glabrous inside;

septum ± perforate;

ovules 4(–8) per ovary;

style 3–6 mm.

as wide as or longer than wide, apex rounded-acute;

valves glabrous inside;

septum complete;

ovules 10–14 per ovary;

style 1–2 mm.

Petals

yellow.

cream-white or white.

Physaria kingii subsp. cobrensis

Physaria kingii subsp. kaibabensis

Phenology Flowering May–Jun. Flowering Jun.
Habitat Light-colored silt, limestone gravel, rocky areas with low sagebrush Limestone-clay knolls, in open, parklike meadows
Elevation 500-1000 m (1600-3300 ft) 2500-2700 m (8200-8900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
ID; NV; OR
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from FNA
AZ
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Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Subspecies kaibabensis is found on the Kaibab Plateau.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 7, p. 646. FNA vol. 7, p. 647.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria > Physaria kingii Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria > Physaria kingii
Sibling taxa
P. kingii subsp. bernardina, P. kingii subsp. diversifolia, P. kingii subsp. kaibabensis, P. kingii subsp. kingii, P. kingii subsp. latifolia, P. kingii subsp. utahensis
P. kingii subsp. bernardina, P. kingii subsp. cobrensis, P. kingii subsp. diversifolia, P. kingii subsp. kingii, P. kingii subsp. latifolia, P. kingii subsp. utahensis
Synonyms Lesquerella kingii var. cobrensis, P. cobrensis, P. kingii var. cobrensis Lesquerella kaibabensis, P. kaibabensis
Name authority (Rollins & E. A. Shaw) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 324. (2002) (Rollins) O’Kane: Novon 17: 380. (2007)
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