Physaria kingii subsp. kaibabensis

(Rollins) O’Kane

Novon 17: 380. 2007.

Common names: Kaibab bladderpod
Basionym: Lesquerella kaibabensis Rollins Contr. Gray Herb. 211: 110. 1982
Synonyms: Physaria kaibabensis (Rollins) N. H. Holmgren
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 7. Treatment on page 647. Mentioned on page 645.

Plants decumbent to ascending; trichomes (no information available). Basal leaves: blade margins entire. Racemes not usually secund, hardly elongated in fruit. Fruiting pedicels (divaricate-ascending), straight or slightly sigmoid. Petals cream-white or white. Fruits as wide as or longer than wide, apex rounded-acute; valves glabrous inside; septum complete; ovules 10–14 per ovary; style 1–2 mm.


Phenology: Flowering Jun.
Habitat: Limestone-clay knolls, in open, parklike meadows
Elevation: 2500-2700 m

Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Subspecies kaibabensis is found on the Kaibab Plateau.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"elongated" is not a number."thick" is not a number.

ovate +  and narrowly oblong +
rounded-acute +
Steve L. O’Kane Jr. +
(Rollins) O’Kane +
Lesquerella kaibabensis +
appendaged +  and unappendaged +
6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br /> (8 cm80 mm <br />0.08 m <br />) +
repand +  and dentate +
elliptic;spatulate +
much smaller +  and reduced +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
urceolate +, campanulate +  and tubular +
branched +  and simple +
sessile +  and petiolate +
well-developed +
distinct +
not +  and differentiated +
Kaibab bladderpod +
emarginate +  and entire +
2500-2700 m +
straight +  and curved +
not winged +  and unappendaged +
connate +  and distinct +
actinomorphic +
obovate +  and oblanceolate +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (1.3 cm13 mm <br />0.013 m <br />) +
2-valved +  and capsular +
longer than wide +
compressed +, ellipsoid +, obovoid +  and subglobose +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br />) +
latiseptate +, stipitate +, , +, subsessile +  and sessile +
angustiseptate +, terete +, not +, inflated +, not torulose +, obovoid +, ovoid +, ovate +, obpyriform +, oblong +, obdeltate +, obcordate +, lanceolate +, elliptic +, ellipsoid +, suborbicular +, orbicular +, subglobose +  and globose +
latiseptate +  and unsegmented +
angustiseptate +  and terete +
Limestone-clay knolls, in open, parklike meadows +
sessile +  and petiolate +
alternate +, not +  and rosulate +
cauline +  and basal +
connate +  and distinct +
decurrent +
lobed;sinuate;lobed;sinuate;entire +
tenuinucellate +, crassinucellate +  and bitegmic +
campylotropous +  and anatropous +
white +  and cream-white +
rudimentary +
obdeltate +, oblanceolate +, ovate +, obovate +  and spatulate +
Flowering Jun. +
trinucleate +  and 3(-11)-colpate +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
sigmoid +  and straight +
ascending +, spreading +, horizontal +  and erect +
slender +
0.45 cm4.5 mm <br />0.0045 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
fused +  and distinct +
3-partite +, bifurcate +  and furcate +
rounded +  and narrowly oblong +
not +  and mucilaginous +
margined +  and winged +
not +  and mucilaginous +
white +, black +, brown +  and yellow +
flattened +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
persistent +  and caducous +
distinct +
spreading +  and erect +
lanceolate +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
reduced +
latiseptate +, schizocarpic +, samaroid +  and lomentaceous +
indehiscent +  and dehiscent +
angustiseptate +, flat +, angled +, terete +, torulose +, not +, segmented +  and nutletlike +
tetradynamous +
branched +  and unbranched +
procumbent +  and decumbent +
prostrate +  and decumbent +
few +  and several +
2-lobed +  and entire +
subsessile +, sessile +  and petiolate +
persistent +
distinct +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
Physaria kaibabensis +
Physaria kingii subsp. kaibabensis +
Physaria kingii +
subspecies +
simple +, stalked +, subsessile +  and sessile +
stellate-scalelike +
coiled +, 1-7-veined +  and veined +
anastomosing +
perennial +, biennial +  and annual +
aquatics +  and terrestrial +
decumbent +  and ascending +
glabrous +  and pubescent +
15 +, 12 +, 10 +, 9 +, 8 +, 7 +, 6 +, 5 +  and 4 +