View source for Paysonia grandiflora

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Paysonia grandiflora
|accepted_authority=(Hooker) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Novon
|place=12: 381. 2002
|year=2002
}}
|common_names=Bigflower bladderpod
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Vesicaria grandiflora
|authority=Hooker
|publication_title=Bot. Mag.
|publication_place=63: plate 3464. 1836
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Alyssum grandiflorum
|authority=(Hooker) Kuntze
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Lesquerella grandiflora
|authority=(Hooker) S. Watson
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Vesicaria brevistyla
|authority=Torrey & A. Gray
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Vesicaria grandiflora var. pinnatifida
|authority=A. Gray
}}
|hierarchy=Brassicaceae;Brassicaceae tribe Physarieae;Paysonia;Paysonia grandiflora
|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>[[Paysonia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Paysonia grandiflora]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 612
|treatment_page=page 613
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties="">Annuals; mostly densely pubescent, sometimes glabrous, trichomes usually 5-parted. <b>Stems</b> erect to decumbent at base, (unbranched or branched), 2–7 dm, (pubescent proximally, trichomes branched). <b>Basal</b> leaves: blade (oblanceolate), 5–15 cm, margins irregularly dentate to 2-pinnatifid, (apex acute to obtuse), surfaces densely pubescent (trichomes erect, 5-parted). <b>Cauline</b> leaves (usually overlapping); blade oblong to lanceolate, 1–4 cm, base (proximal) often narrowed and cuneate, (distal) auriculate, margins dentate to toothed, (apex acute to obtuse, densely pubescent on midrib, trichomes branched). <b>Fruiting</b> pedicels ascending to divaricate, straight to slightly curved upward, 10–20 mm, densely pubescent. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals 5–7 × 2–3 mm, densely pubescent; petals yellow, 8–12 × 6–9 mm, (abruptly narrowed to a short claw), apex rounded to slightly emarginate; filaments dilated basally, (3–4 mm, anthers sagittate, 2.5–3 mm, glandular tissue projecting, subtending paired stamens, nearly surrounding bases of single stamens). <b>Fruits</b> sessile or subsessile, globose or subglobose (slightly longer than broad), 4–6 × 4–5 mm; valves glabrous; replum not flattened; septum complete, (translucent); ovules (8–)16–28(–40) per ovary, (attached in proximal 1/2); style 1–1.5 mm, glabrous; stigmas expanded. <b>Seeds</b> orbicular, 2.5–3 mm. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Mar–May.
|habitat=Dry areas, roadsides, meadows, rocky slopes, scrubland, with sandy, loose, well-drained soils
|distribution=Tex.
|discussion=<p><i>Paysonia grandiflora</i> probably grows also in northeastern Mexico.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Paysonia grandiflora
|author=
|authority=(Hooker) O’Kane & Al-Shehbaz
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Alyssum grandiflorum;Lesquerella grandiflora;Vesicaria brevistyla;Vesicaria grandiflora var. pinnatifida
|basionyms=Vesicaria grandiflora
|family=Brassicaceae
|phenology=Flowering Mar–May.
|habitat=Dry areas, roadsides, meadows, rocky slopes, scrubland, with sandy, loose, well-drained soils
|distribution=Tex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Novon
|publication year=2002
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V7/V7_1003.xml
|tribe=Brassicaceae tribe Physarieae
|genus=Paysonia
|species=Paysonia grandiflora
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