Physaria newberryi
Physaria montana
Newberry twinpod, Newberry's twinpod
mountain bladderpod
several from base, ascending to erect (arising laterally, unbranched), 0.5–1(–2.5) dm.
simple or several from base, prostrate to erect, 0.5–2(–3.5) dm.
(ascending to erect, petiole slender);
blade oblanceolate to obovate, 3–8 cm, (base tapering to petiole), margins incised or dentate with broad teeth, (apex acute to obtuse).
blade suborbicular or obovate to elliptic, (1–)2–5(–7) cm, margins entire, sinuate, or shallowly dentate.
blade linear-oblanceolate to oblanceolate, 1–2 cm, margins entire.
(often secund, proximal shortly petiolate, distal sessile);
blade linear to obovate or rhombic, 1–2.5(–4) cm, margins entire or shallowly dentate.
dense (elongated or not in fruit, 2.5–8.5(–10) cm).
dense, compact, (usually elongated in fruit).
sepals (greenish yellow), lanceolate, 6–8.5 mm, (saccate and cucullate);
petals spatulate to narrowly oblanceolate, 7–10(–12) mm.
sepals elliptic, 5–8.5 mm, (lateral pair boat-shaped, saccate, median pair thickened apically, cucullate);
petals (yellow to orange, sometimes fading purplish), narrowly spatulate or obovate, (6–)7.5–12 mm, (claw undifferentiated from blade, or gradually narrowed to claw, slightly expanded basally).
(divaricate, straight), 5–11(–15) mm, (rigid, fruits not pendent on arching pedicels).
(usually sharply sigmoid, rarely nearly divaricate-spreading and straight), 5–15(–20) mm, (stout).
didymous, sides curved and angular, highly inflated, 6–16 × 8–12 mm, (papery, apical sinus broad and concave);
valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence, distinctly 2-keeled on side away from replum), pubescent, trichomes appressed;
replum linear to linear-lanceolate, as wide as or wider than fruit, apex acute;
ovules 4–8 per ovary;
style 2–9 mm, (usually not exceeding sinus).
(erect), ellipsoid or ovoid, not or slightly obcompressed, (apex not compressed), (6–)7–12 mm;
valves densely pubescent, sometimes sparsely pubescent inside;
ovules (8–)12–20(–24) per ovary;
style 3–7 mm, (sometimes pubescent).
slightly flattened, (ovate).
flattened.
= 10.
Physaria newberryi
Physaria montana
Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).
Physaria newberryi, with its unusual fruits, can be confused with 15. P. chambersii. In P. chambersii, the sides of the fruit are flat, the style always exceeds the top, or shoulders, of the fruit, and shoulders form an angle that does not curve in toward the style. In P. newberryi, the sides of the fruit are concave, the styles are shorter than shoulders of the silicle (except in subsp. yesicola), and shoulders of the silicle form a curved, inward arching crown on the fruit.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Physaria montana is a rather variable species that in southwestern Colorado morphologically approaches P. rectipes and in eastern Wyoming approaches P. curvipes; it is unusual in the genus for its frequent presence on igneous, non-calcareous soils.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Styles less than 4 mm, shorter than fruit sinuses. | subsp. newberryi |
1. Styles 5-9 mm, longer than fruit sinuses. | subsp. yesicola |
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