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PHYSARIA BLADDERPOD
Perennial with caudex ( annual or biennial); hairs stellate, ± sessile.
Stem: erect to decumbent or prostrate, simple or branched distally.
Leaf: basal generally rosetted, simple, entire to wavy or dentate (pinnately lobed); cauline petioled or sessile, entire to wavy or dentate, base not lobed.
Flower: sepals oblong to ovate, erect or spreading, sac-like at base; petals yellow (white or ± purple), widely ovate to spoon-shaped, clawed or not.
Fruit: silicle, dehiscent, spheric to ovoid, ellipsoid, oblong, or spectacle-shaped, inflated and bladdery or not, unsegmented, generally not flattened (flattened); stigma entire.
Seed: 4–28(40), in 2 rows, wingless (narrowly winged).
105 species: w North America, South America. (Greek: bladder, from inflated fruit) [Al-Shehbaz & O'Kane 2002 Novon 12:319–329]
Unabridged references: [Rollins & Shaw 1973 Harvard Univ Press:1–228]

Key to Physaria

1. Fr spectacle-shaped, tip deeply notched, strongly inflated, bladdery ..... P. chambersii

1' Fr spheric to obovoid, ellipsoid, or obcordate, tip obscurely notched or not, generally not inflated or bladdery

2. Annual or biennial, caudex 0 ..... P. tenella

2' Perennial, with simple or branched caudex

3. Fr strongly compressed

4. Fr compressed perpendicular to septum, obcordate, ± inflated, tip notched to truncate ..... P. cordiformis

4' Fr compressed parallel to septum, ellipsoid to obovoid, tip acute ..... P. occidentalis subsp. occidentalis

3' Fr not or only ± compressed

5. Basal, cauline leaves ± similar in shape, width; fruit septum complete; valves hairy inside ..... P. ludoviciana

5' Basal, cauline leaves different in shape, width; fruit septum perforated; valves glabrous to sparsely hairy inside ..... P. kingii

6. Fr tip truncate or ± notched; valves generally sparsely hairy inside ..... subsp. kingii

6' Fr tip round; valves glabrous inside

7. Style 6–9 mm; seeds 4–8 ..... subsp. bernardina

7' Style (2)2.5–6 mm; seeds 8–16 ..... subsp. latifolia

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