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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. |
Deciduous.
Leaf: serrate (or doubly so), base generally oblique, 2° veins straight, parallel, extending to margin, each ending in a tooth; axils of 2° veins generally with prominent tufts of hairs.
Inflorescence: umbels or short racemes in leaf axils on old wood; flowers sessile or pedicels 7–17 mm.
Flower: bisexual; calyx generally bell-shaped, lobes 4–9; stamens 4–9, exserted; ovary strongly compressed; style divided to base, branches spreading.
± 40 species: n temperate. Widely cultivated as street trees; flowers, fruit needed for identification.
1. Lf 1–3.5 cm wide, obtuse, acute, or short-acuminate, margin simply or occasionally doubly serrate
2. Bark not furrowed, peeling as irregular woody scales 2–8 cm wide, orange-brown where freshly exposed, soon weathering ash-gray; flowers, fruit in autumn ..... U. parvifolia
2' Bark deeply furrowed, remaining firmly attached, medium gray; flowers, fruit appearing before leaves in spring ..... U. pumila
1' Lf 3.5–8.3 cm wide, acuminate, margin doubly serrate
3. Pedicel 7–17 mm, slender; flower, fruit drooping; fruit wing margin densely ciliate; bark split into ridges that mostly curve together at their ends; branches never with corky outgrowths ..... [U. americana]
3' Fl, fruit sessile or nearly so; fruit including wings glabrous except for pubescence on stigmatic surface in notch; bark split into ridges or plates that seldom curve together; generally some branches with corky warts or wings ..... [U. minor]
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