Physaria rollinsii

G. A. Mulligan

Canad. J. Bot. 44: 1663, fig. 2, plate 1, fig. 4. 1966.

Common names: Rollins’s twinpod
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 7. Treatment on page 661. Mentioned on page 617, 618, 624.

Perennials; (compact); caudex usually simple, (cespitose); (silvery) pubescent throughout, trichomes 6–8-rayed, rays furcate near base, fused at base, (umbonate, strongly tuberculate throughout). Stems several from base, decumbent, (unbranched, slender), 0.5–1 dm. Basal leaves (strongly rosulate); blade usually oblanceolate or broader, sometimes triangular, 2–3.5 cm (width 5–10 mm), margins entire or with 1 or 2 broad teeth, (apex acute). Cauline leaves: blade oblanceolate, 1–1.5 cm (width 2–4 mm), margins entire, (apex acute). Racemes congested, (elongated moderately in fruit). Fruiting pedicels (spreading, straight or somewhat sigmoid), 5–8 mm. Flowers: sepals linear, 5–7 mm; petals spatulate, 8–10 mm, (apex often somewhat truncate). Fruits (erect), didymous, suborbicular, inflated, 2–5 (–8) × 4–8 (–10) mm, (coriaceous, base slightly cordate or nearly obtuse, sinus obsolete or absent, apical sinus broad and deep); valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), pubescent, trichomes appressed, (silvery on ovaries and immature fruit); replum obovate to oblong, as wide as or wider than fruit, rarely somewhat constricted basally, apex obtuse; ovules 4 per ovary; style 5–7 mm. Seeds slightly flattened. 2n = 8.


Phenology: Flowering May–Jun.
Habitat: Sagebrush, granitic talus, open knolls, limestone chiprock, steep slopes, clay banks, near granite boulders
Elevation: 2300-2500(-3900) m

Discussion

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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ovate +  and narrowly oblong +
Steve L. O’Kane Jr. +
G. A. Mulligan +
Vesicaria sect. Physaria +
appendaged +  and unappendaged +
repand +  and dentate +
oblanceolate;triangular;oblanceolate +
much smaller +  and reduced +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
urceolate +, campanulate +  and tubular +
sessile +  and petiolate +
well-developed +
distinct +
not +  and differentiated +
Rollins’s twinpod +
emarginate +  and entire +
2300-2500(-3900) m +
straight +  and curved +
not winged +  and unappendaged +
connate +  and distinct +
actinomorphic +
2-valved +  and capsular +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
inflated +  and suborbicular +
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 +
Sagebrush, granitic talus, open knolls, limestone chiprock, steep slopes, clay banks, near granite boulders +
sessile +  and petiolate +
alternate +, not +  and rosulate +
cauline +  and basal +
connate +  and distinct +
decurrent +
entire +  and with 1 or 2broad teeth +
sinuate;dentate;sinuate;dentate +
tenuinucellate +, crassinucellate +  and bitegmic +
campylotropous +  and anatropous +
purple +, white +, orange +  and yellow +
rudimentary +
spatulate +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
Flowering May–Jun. +
trinucleate +  and 3(-11)-colpate +
Canad. J. Bot. +
ascending +, spreading +, horizontal +  and erect +
slender +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
furcate +
obovate +  and oblong +
constricted +
not +  and mucilaginous +
margined +  and winged +
not +  and mucilaginous +
white +, black +, brown +  and yellow +
flattened +
persistent +  and caducous +
distinct +
spreading +  and erect +
not saccate +, subsaccate +, deltate +, ovate +, oblong +, elliptic +, lanceolate +  and linear +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
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 +
spreading +  and erect +
2-lobed +  and entire +
subsessile +, sessile +  and petiolate +
persistent +
distinct +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
Coulterina +  and Lesquerella +
Physaria rollinsii +
Physaria +
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simple +, stalked +, subsessile +  and sessile +
stellate-scalelike +
coiled +, 1-7-veined +  and veined +
anastomosing +
perennial +, biennial +  and annual +
aquatics +  and terrestrial +
glabrous +  and pubescent +
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