Physaria (Nuttall ex Torrey & A. Gray) A. Gray (Q3740)

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Physaria is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Physarieae
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Physaria (Nuttall ex Torrey & A. Gray) A. Gray
Physaria is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Physarieae

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    taxon/id/Physaria (Nuttall ex Torrey & A. Gray) A. Gray
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    Physaria (Nuttall ex Torrey & A. Gray) A. Gray
    Physaria
    (Nuttall ex Torrey & A. Gray) A. Gray
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2010. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 7: Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    (Nuttall ex Torrey & A. Gray) A. Gray
    Bladderpod (English)
    North America
    n Mexico
    s South America (Argentina)
    s South America (s Bolivia)
    Asia (ne Russia)
    usually pubescent, trichomes usually sessile, sometimes subsessile or shortly stalked, usually stellate, sometimes stellate-scalelike, rarely simple.
    Stems erect, spreading, decumbent, or prostrate, unbranched or branched distally.
    petiolate or sessile;
    basal usually rosulate, petiolate, blade margins usually entire, sometimes repand to pinnatifid;
    cauline petiolate or sessile, blade margins usually entire, sometimes repand to dentate.
    Fruiting pedicels erect, horizontal, divaricate, spreading, ascending, or sigmoid, usually slender, sometimes stout.
    Flowers: sepals erect or spreading, linear, lanceolate, elliptic, oblong, ovate, or deltate, lateral pair usually saccate basally, sometimes subsaccate or not saccate;
    petals usually yellow, sometimes orange (occasionally drying purplish or maroon), rarely white or purple, spatulate, obovate, ovate, oblanceolate, or obdeltate, (longer than sepals), claw differentiated or not from blade, (apex usually rounded, rarely slightly emarginate);
    stamens tetradynamous;
    filaments usually not dilated basally;
    anthers ovate to narrowly oblong, (apex usually obtuse);
    nectar glands confluent, subtending bases of stamens, median glands present or absent.
    Fruits silicles, sessile, subsessile or, rarely, shortly stipitate, globose, subglobose, orbicular, suborbicular, ellipsoid, elliptic, lanceolate, obcordate, obdeltate, oblong, obpyriform, ovate, ovoid, or obovoid, not torulose, inflated or not, terete, latiseptate, or angustiseptate;
    valves each often with obscure midvein, (usually not retaining seeds after dehiscence), usually pubescent, sometimes glabrous, or, rarely, pubescent inside;
    replum rounded to narrowly oblong;
    ovules (2–) 4–32 (–40 [–80]) per ovary;
    Seeds biseriate, often flattened, sometimes plump, rarely lenticular, usually not winged, rarely narrowly winged or margined, often suborbicular;
    seed-coat (smooth), mucilaginous or not when wetted;
    x = 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15.