View source for Physaria scrotiformis

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Physaria scrotiformis
|accepted_authority=O’Kane
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Novon
|place=17: 376, fig. 1. 2007
|year=2007
}}
|common_names=West silver bladderpod
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Brassicaceae;Brassicaceae tribe Physarieae;Physaria;Physaria scrotiformis
|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 scrotiformis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 623
|treatment_page=page 662
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties="">Perennials; (diminutive); caudex simple or branched, (buried, with thatch of persistent leaf bases distally); (appearing silvery gray-green to silvery purple), densely pubescent, trichomes usually 5 or 6 (rarely 7)-rayed, rays bifurcate or incompletely so, (relatively short, stout, umbonate, moderately tuberculate to nearly smooth, lower layer smoother). <b>Stems</b> 1–5 from base, prostrate to slightly decumbent, (arising laterally, also erect or ascending from tuft of basal leaves, unbranched, purple-green), 0.08–0.3 dm. <b>Basal</b> leaves: (petiole slightly winged); blade oblanceolate, elliptic, or rhombic, (mostly flat, sometimes somewhat folded), 0.6–2.7 cm, (base tapering to petiole), margins entire, (apex rounded to rounded-acute). <b>Cauline</b> leaves: (3–7, shortly petiolate or sessile); blade elliptic to oblanceolate, 0.3–0.5 cm, margins entire. <b>Racemes</b> crowded, (ca. 3–7 fruits). <b>Fruiting</b> pedicels (ascending, straight), 1.8–3.4 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals (greenish yellow), linear-triangular, 3.7–5 mm, (lateral pair subsaccate); petals oblanceolate to narrowly obovate, 4.5–9 mm. <b>Fruits</b> (shortly stipitate, purple or greenish purple in age), slightly didymous, ovoid to obpyriform, 3–5 mm (wider than long, base rounded-obtuse, apex rounded, flattened, or slightly emarginate); valves (inflated, slightly wider than replum), pubescent, trichomes scattered; replum obovate to orbicular-obdeltate, apex rounded, obtuse, or truncate; septum complete or medially small-perforate; ovules 4–6(–8) per ovary; style 2–3.6 mm. <b>Seeds</b> relatively plump, (ovate to suborbicular, usually rounded on one side, ± flat or concave on the other, not mucilaginous when wetted).</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jun-early Jul.
|habitat=Tundra areas with islands of Engelmann spruce on Leadville limestone, amidst limestone cobbles and gravel
|elevation=3500-3700 m
|distribution=Colo.
|discussion=<p><i>Physaria scrotiformis</i> is known only from La Plata County.</p>
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name=Physaria scrotiformis
|authority=O’Kane
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Brassicaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jun-early Jul.
|habitat=Tundra areas with islands of Engelmann spruce on Leadville limestone, amidst limestone cobbles and gravel
|elevation=3500-3700 m
|distribution=Colo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Novon
|publication year=2007
|special status=
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|tribe=Brassicaceae tribe Physarieae
|genus=Physaria
|species=Physaria scrotiformis
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