SPECIES INFORMATION 



1. Classification and nomenclature 



A. Species 



1. Scientific Neune 



a. Binomial: Lescmerella humilis Rollins. 



b. Full bibliographic citation: Rollins, 

 R.C. 1984. Studies in the Cruciferae of 

 western North America II. Contr. Gray 

 Herb. 214: 1-18. 



c. Type specimen: United States, Montana, 

 Ravalli County: on steep hillside of 

 metamorphosed rocks and detritus, 

 approach to and near summit of St. 

 Mary's Peak, Bitterroot Range, July 17, 

 1983, Reed C. & Kathrvn W. Rollins 

 83300, with Klaus H. Lackschewitz . Peter 

 Lesica & Aileen G. Roads . Holotype: Gray 

 Herbarium, Harvard University. 



2. Pertinent synonyms: None. 



3. Common Nzunes: Few-seeded bladderpod, 

 Bitterroot bladderpod. 



4. Taxon codes: PDBRAINIYO (The Nature 

 Conservancy); 8152, LESHUM (U.S. Forest 

 Service, Region 1) . 



5. size of genus: Lescmerella humilis is one of 

 approximately 75 species in the genus in 

 North America; of these, most are 

 concentrated in the southwestern United 

 States, Mexico, and the Rocky Mountain and 

 intermontane basin regions of the western 

 United States (Rollins and Shaw 1973) . In 

 Montana, L. humilis is one of six species 

 reported for the genus (Dorn 1984; Rollins 

 1984) . Within the genus, the nearest 

 relative to L. humilis is L. hemiphysaria . 

 The ranges of the two species are allopatric; 

 L. humilis is restricted to the Bitterroot 

 Range in Montana, and L. hemiphysaria is 

 confined to central Utah (Rollins 1984) . 



B. F2unily classification 



1. Fzunily naune: Brassicaceae. 



