Physaria eriocarpa

Grady & O’Kane

Novon 17: 184, fig. 3. 2007.

Common names: Sheep Mountain bladderpod
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 7. Treatment on page 636. Mentioned on page 621.

Perennials; caudex branched, (thickened, cespitose); densely pubescent, trichomes 5-rayed or 6-rayed, rays slightly fused at base, furcate or bifurcate, (tuberculate throughout). Stems few from base, well-exserted from basal leaves, 0.4–1 (–1.2) dm. Basal leaves: blade (erect), obovate to orbicular, 1.5–2.5 cm, (base evidently distinct from petiole), margins entire, (folded). Cauline leaves: blade spatulate, margins entire. Racemes compact, subumbellate. Fruiting pedicels (ascending, curved to slightly sigmoid), 5–8 mm. Flowers: sepals (pale-yellow), 4–5 mm; petals lingulate, 6–7 mm. Fruits ovoid to ellipsoid, slightly inflated, (apex not compressed), 3–4 mm; valves pubescent, trichomes erect on mature fruits, (± appearing fuzzy); ovules 8 per ovary; style 4–5 mm, (glabrous). Seeds plump.


Phenology: Flowering Jun–Jul.
Habitat: Windswept ridge lines and mountain peaks in limestone rubble and cobbles
Elevation: 2600-3000 m

Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Physaria eriocarpa is known from Sheep Mountain.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

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ovate +  and narrowly oblong +
Steve L. O’Kane Jr. +
Grady & O’Kane +
obovate +  and orbicular +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
Vesicaria sect. Physaria +
appendaged +  and unappendaged +
repand +  and dentate +
spatulate +
much smaller +  and reduced +
urceolate +, campanulate +  and tubular +
sessile +  and petiolate +
well-developed +
distinct +
not +  and differentiated +
Sheep Mountain bladderpod +
emarginate +  and entire +
2600-3000 m +
straight +  and curved +
not winged +  and unappendaged +
connate +  and distinct +
actinomorphic +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
2-valved +  and capsular +
inflated +, ovoid +  and ellipsoid +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 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 +
Windswept ridge lines and mountain peaks in limestone rubble and cobbles +
sessile +  and petiolate +
alternate +, not +  and rosulate +
cauline +  and basal +
connate +  and distinct +
decurrent +
sinuate;dentate;sinuate;dentate +
tenuinucellate +, crassinucellate +  and bitegmic +
campylotropous +  and anatropous +
purple +, white +, orange +  and yellow +
rudimentary +
lingulate +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
Flowering Jun–Jul. +
trinucleate +  and 3(-11)-colpate +
ascending +, spreading +, horizontal +  and erect +
slender +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
bifurcate +  and furcate +
rounded +  and narrowly oblong +
not +  and mucilaginous +
margined +  and winged +
not +  and mucilaginous +
white +, black +, brown +  and yellow +
suborbicular +, lenticular +  and flattened +
persistent +  and caducous +
distinct +
spreading +  and erect +
not saccate +, subsaccate +, deltate +, ovate +, oblong +, elliptic +, lanceolate +  and linear +
perforate +  and complete +
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 +
spreading +  and erect +
well-exserted +
2-lobed +  and entire +
subsessile +, sessile +  and petiolate +
persistent +
distinct +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
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Physaria eriocarpa +
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simple +, stalked +, subsessile +  and sessile +
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coiled +, 1-7-veined +  and veined +
anastomosing +
perennial +, biennial +  and annual +
aquatics +  and terrestrial +
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