Dimorphocarpa wislizeni (Engelm.) Rollins
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Dimorphocarpa wislizeni, commonly known as spectacle pod, Wislizeni's spectaclepod, and touristplant, is a flowering plant in the mustard family native to western North America, where it occurs in the southwestern United States as far east as Oklahoma and Texas, and Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, and Coahuila in Mexico.
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Dimorphocarpa wislizeni", CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cultivation
Climate across the habitat
Natural habitat
This species has no GBIF key of its own. Its records are GBIF's under the key of the name Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 11083221 (Biscutella wislizeni (Engelm.) A.Gray, 0 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.
Photographs
Photographs: Wilson44691, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons; Patrick Alexander from Las Cruces, NM, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons; Santha Kumar.G, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Alex Abair, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (3).
Names & registers
Also known as Dithyrea wislizeni; Dithyrea griffithsii; Biscutella wislizeni; Dithyrea wislizeni var. griffithsii. (WCVP, RBG Kew)
The record
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Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Dimorphocarpa wislizeni (Engelm.) Rollins (plant_name_id 2768728), read from Kew's names filegbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedgbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedgbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedwcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04gbif.occurrences nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22this species has no GBIF key of its own; its records are read under GBIF's keys for the names Kew's file holds as this plant, never by a name matched; 0 records of GBIF's key 11083221, Biscutella wislizeni (Engelm.) A.Gray (Kew's file holds it as Biscutella wislizeni (Engelm.) A.Gray (synonym under Dimorphocarpa wislizeni (Engelm.) Rollins)): GBIF occurrence search APIclimate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22no georeferenced record inside the rangewikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 1154622-2, POWO 1154622-2wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22inat.photos.wild not askedinat.photos.cultivated not askedgbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedcommons answeredasked 2026-10-22openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshotEvery source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence.