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Kaibab bladderpod

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cobre bladder-pod

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

blade margins entire.

blade margins entire.

Racemes

not usually secund, hardly elongated in fruit.

secund, usually elongated and loose in fruit.

Fruiting pedicels

(divaricate-ascending), straight or slightly sigmoid.

curved (recurved) or slightly sigmoid.

Fruits

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

valves glabrous inside;

septum complete;

ovules 10–14 per ovary;

style 1–2 mm.

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

valves glabrous inside;

septum ± perforate;

ovules 4(–8) per ovary;

style 3–6 mm.

Petals

cream-white or white.

yellow.

Physaria kingii subsp. kaibabensis

Physaria kingii subsp. cobrensis

Phenology Flowering Jun. Flowering May–Jun.
Habitat Limestone-clay knolls, in open, parklike meadows Light-colored silt, limestone gravel, rocky areas with low sagebrush
Elevation 2500-2700 m (8200-8900 ft) 500-1000 m (1600-3300 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ
[BONAP county map]
from FNA
ID; NV; OR
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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. 647. FNA vol. 7, p. 646.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria > Physaria kingii Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria > Physaria kingii
Sibling taxa
P. kingii subsp. bernardina, P. kingii subsp. cobrensis, P. kingii subsp. diversifolia, P. kingii subsp. kingii, P. kingii subsp. latifolia, P. kingii subsp. utahensis
P. kingii subsp. bernardina, P. kingii subsp. diversifolia, P. kingii subsp. kaibabensis, P. kingii subsp. kingii, P. kingii subsp. latifolia, P. kingii subsp. utahensis
Synonyms Lesquerella kaibabensis, P. kaibabensis Lesquerella kingii var. cobrensis, P. cobrensis, P. kingii var. cobrensis
Name authority (Rollins) O’Kane: Novon 17: 380. (2007) (Rollins & E. A. Shaw) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 324. (2002)
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