Physaria kingii |
Physaria pycnantha |
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King bladderpod, King's bladder-pod |
mountain-view bladderpod |
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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 branched, (densely cespitose and forming hemispheric mounds); densely pubescent, trichomes 5-rayed, rays bifurcate near base, fused at base, (strongly tuberculate throughout). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stems | few to several from base, prostrate to decumbent or erect, 0.5–2(–4) dm. |
few to several from base, erect, (usually exceeding basal leaves), 0.3–0.7 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. |
blade linear-spatulate, 1.5–4 cm, (base narrowed gradually to petiole), margins entire. |
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Cauline leaves | (proximal petiolate, distal sessile); blade obovate or elliptic to spatulate, 0.5–2 cm, margins entire. |
blade spatulate, similar to basal. |
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Racemes | (usually not secund), dense, (sometimes elongated in fruit). |
crowded in distal 1/3, (4–10-flowered). |
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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 (pale yellow), oblong to elliptic, 3–4 mm, (median pair usually thickened apically, cucullate); petals (sometimes with slight tinge of orange basally), lingulate, 4–6 mm. |
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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. |
(loosely to strongly sigmoid), 6–10 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. |
ellipsoid, slightly inflated (somewhat latiseptate), 4–5 mm, (apex acute); valves pubescent, trichomes erect, appearing slightly shaggy; ovules 4–8 per ovary; styles 2.5–3 mm, (shorter than mature fruits). |
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Seeds | flattened (sometimes slightly). |
± flattened, convex on outer side. |
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Physaria kingii |
Physaria pycnantha |
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Phenology | Flowering late May–Jun(-Jul). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Habitat | Dry, windswept knolls of limestone gravel, with other cushion-forming plants | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Elevation | 1600-2300 m (5200-7500 ft) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Distribution |
AZ; CA; ID; NV; OR; UT; nw Mexico
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ID; MT
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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.) |
Physaria pycnantha is morphologically similar to 56. P. nelsonii. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 645. | FNA vol. 7, p. 659. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Synonyms | Vesicaria kingii, Lesquerella kingii | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Name authority | (S. Watson) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 324. (2002) | Grady & O’Kane: Novon 17: 188, fig. 5. (2007) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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