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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Physaria vitulifera
|accepted_authority=Rydberg
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=28: 278. 1901
|year=1901
}}
|common_names=Roundtip twinpod
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Brassicaceae;Brassicaceae tribe Physarieae;Physaria;Physaria vitulifera
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Brassicaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Brassicaceae tribe Physarieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Physaria]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Physaria vitulifera]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 618
|treatment_page=page 665
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole-organism duration">Perennials;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="">caudex simple or branched, (cespitose);</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="caudex architecture;caudex architecture;caudex pubescence;trichome architecture;ray shape;ray shape">(silvery) pubescent throughout, trichomes several-rayed, rays furcate or bifurcate, (relatively massive, smooth to few-tubercled).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="stem quantity;stem orientation;stem some measurement"><b>Stems </b>several from base, usually decumbent to ascending, (arising laterally, unbranched, coarse), 1–2 dm.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="blade shape;blade shape;blade some measurement;margin shape;margin shape"><b>Basal </b>leaves: blade pandurate or obovate, 3–6 cm, margins usually deeply and broadly incised, rarely subentire, (apex obtuse).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="blade shape;margin architecture or shape"><b>Cauline </b>leaves: blade oblanceolate to spatulate, similar to basal, (3–6 mm wide), margins entire, (apex often somewhat acute).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties=""><b>Racemes </b>congested, (elongated in fruit).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="raceme architecture or arrangement;raceme some measurement"><b>Fruiting </b>pedicels (usually curving upward, sigmoid), 6–10 mm.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="sepal shape;sepal some measurement"><b>Flowers:</b> sepals oblong, 6–8 mm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="petal shape;petal some measurement">petals spatulate, to 10 mm.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="fruit architecture or arrangement;fruit shape;fruit arrangement or shape;fruit shape;fruit length;fruit width"><b>Fruits </b>didymous, irregular in shape, somewhat angular, inflated, 5–7 × 6–8 mm, (papery, often rigid, base obtuse or truncate, apical sinus broad, open and deep);</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="valve pubescence;trichome orientation;trichome architecture or fragility">valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), pubescent, trichomes spreading, loose;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="replum shape;replum size;fruit width;fruit width;apex shape">replum oblong, often constricted, as wide as or wider than fruit, apex obtuse;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="ovule quantity">ovules 4 per ovary;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="style some measurement">style 5–7 mm.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties=""><b>Seeds </b>flattened.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s16" data-properties="seed shape;2n chromosome quantity;2n chromosome quantity">2n = 8, 16.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jun.
|habitat=Rocky hillsides, dry banks, gravel and sand, granitic slopes, soil scree, red shale
|elevation=1600-3000 m
|distribution=Colo.
|tables=
|references=
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name=Physaria vitulifera
|authority=Rydberg
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Brassicaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jun.
|habitat=Rocky hillsides, dry banks, gravel and sand, granitic slopes, soil scree, red shale
|elevation=1600-3000 m
|distribution=Colo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1901
|special status=
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-fine-grained-xml.git/src/84153f6d59a0a91d69695978a64cee7560374f8e/V7/V7_1138.xml
|tribe=Brassicaceae tribe Physarieae
|genus=Physaria
|species=Physaria vitulifera
|2n chromosome quantity=16;8
|apex shape=obtuse
|blade shape=oblanceolate;spatulate
|blade some measurement=3cm;6cm
|caudex architecture=branched;simple
|caudex pubescence=pubescent
|fruit architecture or arrangement=didymous
|fruit arrangement or shape=angular
|fruit length=5mm;7mm
|fruit shape=inflated;irregular
|fruit width=wider;wider;6mm;8mm
|margin architecture or shape=entire
|margin shape=subentire;incised
|ovule quantity=4
|petal shape=spatulate
|petal some measurement=0mm;10mm
|raceme architecture or arrangement=congested
|raceme some measurement=6mm;10mm
|ray shape=bifurcate;furcate
|replum shape=oblong
|replum size=constricted
|seed shape=flattened
|sepal shape=oblong
|sepal some measurement=6mm;8mm
|stem orientation=usually decumbent;ascending
|stem quantity=several
|stem some measurement=1dm;2dm
|style some measurement=5mm;7mm
|trichome architecture=several-rayed
|trichome architecture or fragility=loose
|trichome orientation=spreading
|valve pubescence=pubescent
|whole-organism duration=perennial
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