Physaria ovalifolia |
Physaria kingii |
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roundleaf bladderpod |
King bladderpod, King's bladder-pod |
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Habit | Perennials; caudex simple or branched, (thickened by persistent leaf bases); densely pubescent (foliage usually scabrous), trichomes (sessile or short-stalked), several-rayed, rays furcate near base, (usually strongly umbonate, roughly tuberculate, less so over umbo). | 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). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stems | few to several from base, erect or outer decumbent, 0.5–2.5 dm. |
few to several from base, prostrate to decumbent or erect, 0.5–2(–4) dm. |
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Basal leaves | blade suborbicular to elliptic or ovate or deltate, 0.5–2(–6.5) cm, margins entire or shallowly dentate. |
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. |
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Cauline leaves | (proximal shortly petiolate, distal usually sessile); blade narrowly elliptic or obovate, (0.5–)1–2.5(–4) cm, margins entire. |
(proximal petiolate, distal sessile); blade obovate or elliptic to spatulate, 0.5–2 cm, margins entire. |
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Racemes | compact, (± subumbellate to densely corymbiform, elongated or not). |
(usually not secund), dense, (sometimes elongated in fruit). |
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Flowers | sepals ± elliptic, 4.5–7(–8.5) mm, (median pair thickened apically); petals (sometimes white), suborbicular to obovate or obdeltate, 6.5–15 mm, (base narrowing to broad claw, apex sometimes emarginated). |
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). |
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Fruiting pedicels | (usually spreading at right angles, sometimes nearly erect, ± straight), 5–15(–20) mm, (stout). |
(erect to divaricate-ascending or recurved, erect in distal 1/3, usually sigmoid, sometimes straight or slightly curved), 4.5–10(–15) mm. |
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Fruits | (sessile or shortly stipitate, less than 1 mm), subglobose to broadly ellipsoid, inflated or slightly compressed (terete or subterete), (4–)5–8(–9) mm; valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous; replum as wide as or wider than fruit; ovules 8–16 per ovary; style 4–8(–9) mm. |
(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. |
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Seeds | flattened. |
flattened (sometimes slightly). |
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Physaria ovalifolia |
Physaria kingii |
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Distribution |
CO; KS; NE; NM; OK; TX
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AZ; CA; ID; NV; OR; UT; nw Mexico
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Discussion | Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 655. | FNA vol. 7, p. 645. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Synonyms | Lesquerella ovalifolia, Lesquerella engelmannii subsp. ovalifolia | Vesicaria kingii, Lesquerella kingii | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Name authority | (Rydberg) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 326. (2002) | (S. Watson) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 324. (2002) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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