Physaria rectipes |
Physaria calderi |
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straight bladderpod |
Calder's bladderpod |
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Habit | Perennials; (loose, spreading); caudex simple or branched; densely pubescent, trichomes (subsessile), 4–6-rayed, rays furcate or bifurcate, (moderately tuberculate over arms, less so or smooth over center). | Perennials; caudex simple or branched; densely pubescent throughout, trichomes (sessile or subsessile), rays distinct or slightly fused at base, furcate or bifurcate, (strongly umbonate, tuberculate, tubercles often relatively larger, fewer over center). |
Stems | few to several from base, ascending or prostrate, (arising laterally, also from within basal leaves, usually unbranched, rarely branched), 0.5–3(–6) dm. |
simple or few to several from base, usually erect to spreading, sometimes prostrate, 0.5–2 dm. |
Basal leaves | blade narrowly oblanceolate or broadly elliptic, 1–7(–12) cm, margins entire or shallowly toothed, sometimes repand, (inner blades usually flattened in age, surfaces often gray-green, scabrous). |
blade oblanceolate, 2–3 cm, margins entire. |
Cauline leaves | (usually secund); blade spatulate or obovate, 1–2.5(–4.5) cm, margins entire or shallowly toothed, (flat or involute). |
(sessile or proximal shortly petiolate); blade narrowly oblanceolate, 0.5–1.5 cm, margins entire. |
Racemes | somewhat crowded (to moderately elongated in fruit, exceeding basal leaves). |
loose. |
Flowers | sepals broadly elliptic or oblong, 4–7.5(–9) mm, (median pair thickened apically, cucullate); petals cuneate or obovate, 7–10(–16) mm, (tapering gradually to broad claw). |
sepals ovate to elliptic, (3–)4–5(–6) mm, (median pair often thickened apically, cucullate); petals obovate, (6–)7–10 mm (nearly as wide, abruptly narrowed to claw, ca. 1 mm wide). |
Fruiting pedicels | (often divaricate-spreading and straight, or horizontal and loosely sigmoid, sometimes slightly recurved), 5–15 mm. |
(erect to divaricate or ascending, sometimes curved), (5–)10–20(–40) mm, (stout). |
Fruits | subglobose to ovoid or ellipsoid, sometimes compressed, (4–)5–7(–9) mm; valves sparsely pubescent, trichomes appressed or erect, sometimes sparsely pubescent inside; ovules (8–)12–16(–20) per ovary; style 2–7 mm. |
subglobose to ellipsoid, compressed (usually angustiseptate), to 8 mm; (valves not retaining seeds after dehiscence); replum as wide as or wider than fruit; ovules 10–14 per ovary; style 1–2 mm. |
Seeds | somewhat flattened. |
plump. |
2n | = 10 + 2, 18, 20, ± 40. |
= 20. |
Physaria rectipes |
Physaria calderi |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jul. | Flowering Jun–Aug. |
Habitat | Sandy soils, limey knolls, rocky hills, clay hillsides, dry ridges, weathered rocks, gravelly outwashes, stony slopes, pinyon-juniper woodlands | Dry rocky summits, limestone flats and slopes, alpine knolls |
Elevation | 1500-2600 m (4900-8500 ft) | 600-1500 m (2000-4900 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; CO; NM; UT
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AK; NT; YT |
Discussion | As here circumscribed, Physaria rectipes remains heterogeneous and may represent more than one taxon, even after the recent removal of P. pulvinata. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Physaria calderi is known from the Ogilvie and Richardson mountains. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 660. | FNA vol. 7, p. 629. |
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Lesquerella rectipes | Lesquerella calderi, Lesquerella arctica subsp. calderi |
Name authority | (Wooton & Standley) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 327. (2002) | (G. A. Mulligan & A. E. Porsild) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 322. (2002) |
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