Physaria subumbellata |
Physaria ovalifolia |
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parasol bladderpod |
roundleaf bladderpod |
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Habit | Perennials; caudex simple or branched, (usually covered with persistent leaf bases, cespitose); densely pubescent, trichomes (closely appressed), rays distinct, usually bifurcate. | 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). | ||||
Stems | several from base, erect, (unbranched, slender), 0.1–0.6 dm. |
few to several from base, erect or outer decumbent, 0.5–2.5 dm. |
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Basal leaves | blade rhombic to obovate, 2–4 cm, margins entire. |
blade suborbicular to elliptic or ovate or deltate, 0.5–2(–6.5) cm, margins entire or shallowly dentate. |
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Cauline leaves | blade linear-oblanceolate, similar to basal. |
(proximal shortly petiolate, distal usually sessile); blade narrowly elliptic or obovate, (0.5–)1–2.5(–4) cm, margins entire. |
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Racemes | dense (distally, subumbellate). |
compact, (± subumbellate to densely corymbiform, elongated or not). |
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Flowers | sepals (yellowish), oblong to elliptic, 3.5–7 mm, (median pair usually thickened apically, cucullate); petals lingulate to spatulate, 4–7 mm. |
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). |
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Fruiting pedicels | (divaricate-ascending), 3–5 mm, (densely pubescent). |
(usually spreading at right angles, sometimes nearly erect, ± straight), 5–15(–20) mm, (stout). |
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Fruits | (erect), ovate to suborbicular, compressed apically (latiseptate), 3–4 mm; valves pubescent; replum ovate to obovate; ovules 4–6 per ovary; style 2–3 mm. |
(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. |
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Seeds | plump. |
flattened. |
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2n | = 10. |
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Physaria subumbellata |
Physaria ovalifolia |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jun. | |||||
Habitat | Rocky high ridges, gravel and stony areas, juniper covered knolls, rock crevices, clay hillsides, pinyon-juniper areas, calcareous substrates | |||||
Elevation | 1600-2700 m (5200-8900 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
CO; UT; WY
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CO; KS; NE; NM; OK; TX
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Discussion | Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 663. | FNA vol. 7, p. 655. | ||||
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | ||||
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Synonyms | Lesquerella subumbellata | Lesquerella ovalifolia, Lesquerella engelmannii subsp. ovalifolia | ||||
Name authority | (Rollins) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 328. (2002) | (Rydberg) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 326. (2002) | ||||
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