Physaria kingii subsp. diversifolia

(Greene) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz

Novon 12: 325. 2002.

Basionym: Lesquerella diversifolia Greene Pittonia 4: 309. 1901
Synonyms: Lesquerella kingii subsp. diversifolia (Greene) Rollins & E. A. Shaw Lesquerella kingii var. sherwoodii (M. Peck) C. L. Hitchcock Lesquerella occidentalis subsp. diversifolia (Greene) Maguire & A. H. Holmgren Lesquerella occidentalis var. diversifolia (Greene) C. L. Hitchcock Lesquerella sherwoodii Physaria kingii var. diversifolia (Greene) B. L. Turner
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 7. Treatment on page 646. Mentioned on page 645.

Plants usually prostrate and straggling; trichomes (lower layer) smoother, (upper-layer) moderately tuberculate, much less so over flat or mounded center. Basal leaves: blade margins sinuate or lobed, or, sometimes, lyrate. Racemes not secund, elongated and loose in fruit. Fruiting pedicels usually sigmoid. Petals yellow. Fruits slightly wider than long, apex truncate or retuse; valves pubescent inside; septum fenestrate; ovules 4–6 per ovary; style to 9 mm. 2n = 10.


Phenology: Flowering May–Aug.
Habitat: Talus slopes, gravelly flood banks, steep limestone cliffs, rock crevices, marble chiprock, sandy and gravelly soils
Elevation: 1200-3000 m

Discussion

Subspecies diversifolia is found in the Elkhorn and Wallowa mountains.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"slightly wider than long" is not a number."elongated" is not a number."thick" is not a number.

ovate +  and narrowly oblong +
retuse +  and truncate +
Steve L. O’Kane Jr. +
(Greene) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz +
Lesquerella diversifolia +
appendaged +  and unappendaged +
6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br /> (8 cm80 mm <br />0.08 m <br />) +
lyrate +, lobed +  and sinuate +
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 +
emarginate +  and entire +
1200-3000 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 +
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 +
Talus slopes, gravelly flood banks, steep limestone cliffs, rock crevices, marble chiprock, sandy and gravelly soils +
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 +
rudimentary +
obdeltate +, oblanceolate +, ovate +, obovate +  and spatulate +
Flowering May–Aug. +
trinucleate +  and 3(-11)-colpate +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
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 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br />) +
Lesquerella kingii subsp. diversifolia +, Lesquerella kingii var. sherwoodii +, Lesquerella occidentalis subsp. diversifolia +, Lesquerella occidentalis var. diversifolia +, Lesquerella sherwoodii +  and Physaria kingii var. diversifolia +
Physaria kingii subsp. diversifolia +
Physaria kingii +
subspecies +
simple +, stalked +, subsessile +  and sessile +
tuberculate +
stellate-scalelike +
coiled +, 1-7-veined +  and veined +
anastomosing +
perennial +, biennial +  and annual +
aquatics +  and terrestrial +
straggling +  and prostrate +
glabrous +  and pubescent +
15 +, 12 +, 10 +, 9 +, 8 +, 7 +, 6 +, 5 +  and 4 +