Physaria arenosa (Richardson) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz (Q3746)

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Physaria arenosa is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Physaria
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Physaria arenosa (Richardson) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz
Physaria arenosa is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Physaria

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    taxon/id/Physaria arenosa (Richardson) O'Kane & Al-Shehbaz
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    Physaria arenosa (Richardson) O'Kane & Al-Shehbaz
    Physaria arenosa
    (Richardson) O'Kane & Al-Shehbaz
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2010. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 7: Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    (Richardson) O'Kane & Al-Shehbaz
    Great Plains bladderpod (English)
    sand bladderpod (English)
    lesquerelle des sables (French)
    Great Plains bladderpod (English)
    ± densely pubescent, trichomes (sessile or short-stalked), few-rayed, rays (usually spreading), distinct or slightly fused at base, furcate or bifurcate, (tuberculate).
    Stems simple or few from base, prostrate or straggling to erect, (sometimes purplish, usually unbranched), (0.5–) 1–2 (–3) dm.
    Basal leaves: blade oblanceolate, 1.5–5 (–7) cm, margins entire or shallowly dentate, (flat).
    Cauline leaves: blade elliptic to linear, (0.5–) 1–2.5 (–3) cm, margins usually entire.
    Fruiting pedicels (usually sharply recurved, sometimes divaricate-spreading or nearly horizontal), 5–15 (–20) mm, (stout).
    Flowers: sepals elliptic or oblong, 4–6 (–7) mm, (lateral pair subsaccate, median pair thickened apically, cucullate);
    petals (often red or lavender when dried), obovate, 6–8.5 (–9.5) mm, (narrowing to broad claw).
    Fruits subglobose, obovoid, or broadly ellipsoid, slightly inflated, (3.5–) 4–5.5 (–6.5) mm;
    valves densely pubescent outside, trichomes spreading or closely appressed, rarely sparsely pubescent inside;
    ovules (4–) 8 (–10) per ovary;
    style (slender), 3–5.5 (–6.5) mm.
    Seeds slightly flattened.