Alyssoides

{{short description|Species of plant}}

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|image = Alyssoides utriculata - Berlin Botanical Garden - IMG 8506.JPG

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|genus = Alyssoides

|parent_authority = Mill.

|species = utriculata

|authority = (L.) Medik.

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|Alyssoides graeca|(Reut. ex Boiss.) Jáv.

|Alyssum graecum|(Reut. ex Boiss.) Kuntze

|Alyssum oederi|Durande

|Vesicaria graeca|Reut. ex Boiss.

|Vesicaria utriculata|(L.) DC.}}

|synonyms_ref = {{cite web|title = AlyBase| url = https://www.alysseae.sav.sk/| access-date = 28 December 2021}}

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Alyssoides is a genus of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae containing a single species, Alyssoides utriculata. A herbaceous perennial plant native to Southern Europe and Turkey, it grows on dry rocky slopes and on calcareous rocks, reaching heights of 20 to 50{{nbsp}}cm and blooming with yellow flowers between April and May–July.{{cite book| last = Asenov| first = I.| chapter = Alisoides – Alyssoides Mill.| title = Flora na Narodna Republika Bǎlgarija|volume = IV| year = 1970| editor-last1 = Jordanov| editor-first1 = D.| editor-last2 = Kožuharov| editor-first2 = S.| place = Sofia| publisher = Bulgarian Academy of Sciences| language = Bulgarian| pages = 484–9}} [A. graeca and A. bulgarica.]

The genus formerly contained a second species, Alyssoides cretica, but after molecular phylogenetic studies from 2008 and 2013 it was reassigned to the genus Lutzia.{{cite journal| last1 = Španiel| first1 = Stanislav| last2 = Kempa| first2 = Matúš| last3 = Salmerón-Sánchez| first3 = Esteban| last4 = Fuertes-Aguilar| first4 = Javier| last5 = Mota| first5 = Juan F.| last6 = Al-Shehbaz| first6 = Ihsan A.| last7 = German| first7 = Dmitry A.| last8 = Olšavská| first8 = Katarína| last9 = Šingliarová| first9 = Barbora| last10 = Zozomová-Lihová| first10 = Judita| last11 = Marhold| first11 = Karol| date = 2015| title = AlyBase: database of names, chromosome numbers, and ploidy levels of Alysseae (Brassicaceae), with a new generic concept of the tribe| journal = Plant Systematics and Evolution| volume = 301| issue = 10| pages = 2463–2491| doi = 10.1007/s00606-015-1257-3| bibcode = 2015PSyEv.301.2463S}}

There are two subspecies: the A. utricalata subsp. utriculata, and A. utriculata subsp. bulgarica, which characteristically differ by the pattern and shape of their hairs.

Alyssoides utriculata is used as an ornamental plant and in gardening may be referred to as inflated bladderseed {{cite web| title = Alyssoides utriculata| publisher = Royal Horticultural Society| url = https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/1026/i-alyssoides-utriculata-i/details| access-date = 28 December 2021}} or as (Greek) bladderpod{{cite web| title = Alyssoides utriculata (L.) Medik. | work = Pl@ntNet| url = https://identify.plantnet.org/the-plant-list/species/Alyssoides%20utriculata%20(L.)%20Medik./data| access-date = 28 December 2021}} See also entries at [https://www.alysseae.sav.sk AlyBase] and [https://brassibase.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/?action=search&subaction=tax¶m1=alyssoides BrassiBase] (accessed 28 December 2021). (not to be confused with other plants named bladderpod).