Physaria rectipes |
Physaria dornii |
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straight bladderpod |
Dorn's twinpod, tunp range twinpod |
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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; (compact); caudex simple, (stout); densely (silvery) pubescent throughout (except style), trichomes several-rayed, rays furcate, fused at base, (umbonate, tuberculate throughout). |
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 from base, erect, (arising from a condensed rosette), to 1 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). |
(ascending or erect); blade elliptic to oblanceolate to obovate, (usually curled from middle to apex), (1.5–)5–7 cm (width 12–20 mm), margins entire. |
Cauline leaves | (usually secund); blade spatulate or obovate, 1–2.5(–4.5) cm, margins entire or shallowly toothed, (flat or involute). |
(1–5); blade oblanceolate, 1–2.5 cm, margins entire. |
Racemes | somewhat crowded (to moderately elongated in fruit, exceeding basal leaves). |
compact (or elongated in fruit, to 1 dm, barely exceeding leaves). |
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 (erect), oblong to linear or spatulate, 5.5–7 mm; petals spatulate, 10–14 mm, (claw undifferentiated from blade). |
Fruiting pedicels | (often divaricate-spreading and straight, or horizontal and loosely sigmoid, sometimes slightly recurved), 5–15 mm. |
(divaricate-ascending, slightly curved), 7–18 mm. |
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. |
didymous, irregular, highly inflated, 8–11(–18) × 10–15 mm, (papery, basal sinus shallower than the deep apical sinus; valves retaining seeds after dehiscence); replum obovate, not constricted, 1–1.8 mm, apex obtuse, as wide as or wider than fruit; ovules (4–)8(–12) per ovary; style 4–6 mm, (glabrous). |
Seeds | somewhat flattened. |
flattened, (oblong to elliptic, thin-margined or not). |
2n | = 10 + 2, 18, 20, ± 40. |
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Physaria rectipes |
Physaria dornii |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jul. | Flowering May–Jun. |
Habitat | Sandy soils, limey knolls, rocky hills, clay hillsides, dry ridges, weathered rocks, gravelly outwashes, stony slopes, pinyon-juniper woodlands | Calcareous shale, slopes, ridges |
Elevation | 1500-2600 m (4900-8500 ft) | 1900-2200 m (6200-7200 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; CO; NM; UT
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WY |
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.) |
Of conservation concern. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 660. | FNA vol. 7, p. 634. |
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Lesquerella rectipes | |
Name authority | (Wooton & Standley) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 327. (2002) | Lichvar: Brittonia 35: 150, figs. 1–3. (1983) |
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