Physaria kingii |
Physaria occidentalis |
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King bladderpod, King's bladder-pod |
western bladder-pod |
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Habit | Perennials; caudex usually simple, sometimes branched, (not thickened); usually densely pubescent, trichomes (sessile or short-stalked), 3–7-rayed, rays distinct or slightly fused at base, typically furcate near base, bifurcate or 3-partite, (not to slightly umbonate, smooth or moderately to strongly tuberculate). | Perennials; caudex simple or branched, (thickened, sometimes subterranean); densely pubescent, trichomes (sessile or short-stalked), 5–7-rayed, raysdistinct, bifurcate, (moderately to prominently tuberculate). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stems | few to several from base, prostrate to decumbent or erect, 0.5–2(–4) dm. |
few to several from base, prostrate to decumbent or erect, (usually unbranched), 0.3–1.5(–3) dm. |
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Basal leaves | blade suborbicular to narrowly or broadly oblanceolate to broadly elliptic or rhombic, (1.2–)2–6(–8) cm, (base usually abruptly narrowed to petiole), margins entire, sinuate, or lobed. |
(petiole slender); blade suborbicular to obovate or elliptic, 1–8 cm, (base narrowing gradually or abruptly to petiole), margins sinuate-dentate or entire. |
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Cauline leaves | (proximal petiolate, distal sessile); blade obovate or elliptic to spatulate, 0.5–2 cm, margins entire. |
(proximal shortly petiolate, distal sessile); blade oblanceolate, 0.5–1.5(–2.5) cm, margins entire or remotely dentate. |
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Racemes | (usually not secund), dense, (sometimes elongated in fruit). |
dense or loose. |
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Flowers | sepals lanceolate, 4–6(–7) mm; petals (yellow, cream-yellow, cream-white, or white), obovate to oblanceolate, 6–13 mm, (claw weakly differentiated from blade). |
sepals elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 4.5–7 mm, (median pair cucullate); petals spatulate, 7–9(–14) mm, (claw undifferentiated from blade). |
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Fruiting pedicels | (erect to divaricate-ascending or recurved, erect in distal 1/3, usually sigmoid, sometimes straight or slightly curved), 4.5–10(–15) mm. |
(sigmoid or curved), 5–10(–15) mm. |
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Fruits | (sessile or substipitate), subglobose, obovoid, or ellipsoid, compressed (sometimes slightly angustiseptate), 3–9 mm, (rigid, apex truncate, retuse, or rounded-acute); valves sparsely or densely pubescent, sometimes sparsely pubescent inside; (septum sometimes fenestrate, perforate, or obsolete); ovules 4–16 per ovary; style 1–9 mm. |
(erect), ellipsoid to obovoid, compressed at apex and sometimes margins (strongly latiseptate), (5–)6–9 mm, (apex acute, often beaked); valves densely pubescent, trichomes appressed or spreading, sometimes sparsely pubescent inside, trichomes 4- or 5-rayed; ovules 4–12 per ovary; style (2–)3–6.5 mm, (often sparsely pubescent). |
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Seeds | flattened (sometimes slightly). |
inner surface flattened, outer convex. |
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Physaria kingii |
Physaria occidentalis |
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Distribution |
AZ; CA; ID; NV; OR; UT; nw Mexico
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CA; ID; NV; OR; UT; WA
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Discussion | Subspecies 7 (7 in the flora). The Physaria kingii complex is in need of further study. It is widespread in the western United States, mostly in montane environments. This treatment recognizes a highly variable species with generally well-marked, geographically coherent subspecies. Hybridization may be involved in some of the subspecies, especially in subsp. kaibabensis, where molecular data indicate intra-individual genetic variation (pers. obs.). (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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Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 645. | FNA vol. 7, p. 654. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Synonyms | Vesicaria kingii, Lesquerella kingii | Vesicaria occidentalis, Lesquerella occidentalis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Name authority | (S. Watson) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 324. (2002) | (S. Watson) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 326. (2002) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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