Physaria subumbellata |
Physaria tumulosa |
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parasol bladderpod |
Kodachrome 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 (buried), branched, (forming hard mats); densely pubescent, trichomes several-rayed, rays furcate or bifurcate, (tuberculate). |
Stems | several from base, erect, (unbranched, slender), 0.1–0.6 dm. |
several from base, erect, (unbranched), 0.2–0.3 dm. |
Basal leaves | blade rhombic to obovate, 2–4 cm, margins entire. |
(few), similar to cauline. |
Cauline leaves | blade linear-oblanceolate, similar to basal. |
(petiole not differentiated from blade); blade (somewhat succulent), linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 5–12 mm, margins entire. |
Racemes | dense (distally, subumbellate). |
dense, (few-flowered). |
Flowers | sepals (yellowish), oblong to elliptic, 3.5–7 mm, (median pair usually thickened apically, cucullate); petals lingulate to spatulate, 4–7 mm. |
sepals (yellowish), elliptic, 3–4.5 mm; petals (erect or, more commonly, arching), spatulate to oblanceolate, 5.8–7 mm, (claw not or weakly differentiated from blade). |
Fruiting pedicels | (divaricate-ascending), 3–5 mm, (densely pubescent). |
(ascending to divaricate-ascending, ± straight), 3.5–6 mm. |
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. |
(coppery or reddish brown in age), broadly ovoid, slightly inflated, 3–4 mm; valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous throughout; replum as wide as or wider than fruit; ovules 4–8 per ovary; style 1.8–3 mm. |
Seeds | plump. |
flattened. |
2n | = 10. |
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Physaria subumbellata |
Physaria tumulosa |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jun. | Flowering May–Jun. |
Habitat | Rocky high ridges, gravel and stony areas, juniper covered knolls, rock crevices, clay hillsides, pinyon-juniper areas, calcareous substrates | Barren white knolls surrounded by sagebrush, pinyon pine, and Utah juniper |
Elevation | 1600-2700 m (5200-8900 ft) | 1600-1800 m (5200-5900 ft) |
Distribution |
CO; UT; WY
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UT |
Discussion | Of conservation concern. Physaria tumulosa is morphologically similar to 55. P. navajoensis of northeastern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico, and differing very subtly. It has been long treated as an infraspecific taxon of P. hitchcockii; unpublished molecular data do not support that disposition. It is found on knolls of the Winsor Member of the Carmel Formation. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 663. | FNA vol. 7, p. 664. |
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria | Brassicaceae > tribe Physarieae > Physaria |
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Synonyms | Lesquerella subumbellata | Lesquerella hitchcockii subsp. tumulosa, Lesquerella tumulosa, P. rubicundula var. tumulosa |
Name authority | (Rollins) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 328. (2002) | (Barneby) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 12: 328. (2002) |
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