Physaria kingii subsp. diversifolia
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
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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
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Lower Taxa
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hypogynous +
dithecal +
dehiscing +
petiolate +
rosulate +
opposite +
absent +
auriculate +
elliptic;spatulate +
absent +
pubescent +
woody +
well-developed +
distinct +
absent +
accumbent +
3[2]-fid +
absent +
Oreg. +
absent +
median +
dilated +
actinomorphic +
bisexual +
dehiscent +
dehiscent +
distinct +
absent +
Talus slopes, gravelly flood banks, steep limestone cliffs, rock crevices, marble chiprock, sandy and gravelly soils +
racemose +
pungent +
watery +
absent +
connivent +
spreading +
decurrent +
lobed;sinuate;lobed;sinuate;entire +
absent +
1-seeded +
obscure +
confluent +
receptacular +
variable +
simple +
eseptate +
parietal +
apical +
4;6 +
decussate +
absent +
hypogynous +
alternate +
yellow +
absent +
rudimentary +
2-carpellate +
4-11-colpate +
Novon +
2002 +
not secund +
divaricate +
sigmoid +
dense +
slender +
coiled +
accumbent +
conduplicate +
incumbent +
tiny +
indistinct +
slender +
biseriate +
flattened +
saccate +
distinct +
lateral +
lanceolate +
fenestrate +
absent +
reduced +
longitudinal +
tetradynamous +
equal +
prostrate +
absent +
persistent +
distinct +
absent +
obsolete +
Physaria kingii subsp. diversifolia +
Physaria kingii +
subspecies +
smoother +
mixed +
stellate +
tuberculate +
stellate-scalelike +
dehiscing +
pubescent +
anastomosing +
not scapose +
perennial +
pubescent +
eglandular +
submerged +