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Physaria pendula
(Rollins) O'Kane & Al-Shehbaz
Family:
Brassicaceae
Snake Range Bladderpod
[
Lesquerella pendula
Rollins]
FNA
Resources
Steve L. O´Kane Jr. in Flora of North America (vol. 7)
Perennials;
caudex simple; densely pubescent, trichomes 5-7-rayed, rays bifurcate or trifurcate.
Stems
several from base, erect or outer usually decumbent toward base, (from below a terminal tuft of mostly erect leaves, unbranched), 1-2 dm.
Basal leaves:
blade ovate to elliptic, 2-4 cm, (base gradually narrowed to petiole), margins entire, (surfaces densely pubescent with trichome layers).
Cauline leaves
(remote, proximal shortly petiolate); blade spatulate to oblanceolate, similar to basal, (base often cuneate), margins entire.
Racemes
elongated.
Fruiting pedicels
(recurved), 7-10 mm.
Flowers:
sepals linear-oblong, 5-7 mm, (lateral pair subsaccate); petals (erect), lingulate, 8-10 mm, (claw barely differentiated from blade).
Fruits
(usually pendent, sessile), subglobose, slightly flattened (angustiseptate), 4-5 mm; valves densely pubescent, trichomes somewhat spreading; ovules 8-12 per ovary; style 4-5 mm.
Seeds
plump, (mucilaginous when wetted).
Flowering May-Jun. Limestone gravel and cobbles, typically with junipers; of conservation concern; 1700-2100 m; Nev.
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This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services [MG-70-19-0057-19].
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