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| Jepson eFlora
Key to families | Table of families and genera This text currently parallels The Jepson Manual: Vascular Plants of California, Second Edition that is now available at the University of California Press. Text appearing in blue on this page will not appear in the printed book; it will be displayed only on the Web. Specimen numbers are hyperlinked to records in the Consortium of California Herbaria data view where possible. Taxa are hyperlinked to entries in the Jepson Interchange via the "[Online Interchange]" link. |
Annual or subshrub; hairs needle-like, stinging, barbed.
Leaf: widely ovate to ± round, toothed to ± lobed; base widely tapered to cordate.
Inflorescence: cyme, bracted.
Flower: petals fused at least at base; stamens epipetalous or fused at base into a short tube; ovary funnel-shaped to hemispheric, placentas 5, stigma lobes 5, generally appressed.
Fruit: obovoid to spheric, nodding or reflexed, dehiscent at top by 5 valves.
Seed: many, < 1 mm, ± oblong, grooved or ribbed.
14 species: sw US, n Mex. (Greek: strongly nettle-like)
1. Annual; petals fused, tube 8–15 mm, lobes 2–5 mm, ± green; stamen filaments 0–1.5 mm ..... E. rupestris
1' Subshrub; petals fused at base, 30–50 mm, ± white to pale yellow; stamen filaments 10–20 mm ..... E. urens
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) [year] Jepson eFlora, http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/IJM.html [accessed on month, day, year]
Citation for an individual treatment: [Author of taxon treatment] [year]. [Taxon name] in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, [URL for treatment]. Accessed on [month, day, year].
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