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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. |
Perennial; hairs ± scale-like.
Stem: decumbent, branched.
Leaf: entire to ± deeply pinnately lobed.
Inflorescence: axillary, cluster, 1–5-flowered.
Flower: calyx in fruit ± enlarged but not bladder-like, open at top; corolla ± rotate, tomentose between stamen bases; anthers free, generally < filaments, opening by slits; style 1.
Fruit: berry, spheric, partly enclosed by calyx.
Seed: ± flat, reniform.
± 9 species: especially sw US, Mex. (Greek: low Saracha, a South America genus in family)
Unabridged references: [Averett 1973 Rhodora 75:325–365]
1. Lf ± linear to lanceolate, margin ± entire to ± deeply lobed, not wavy; corolla 10–15 mm wide; e DMtns (New York Mtns) ..... C. coronopus
1' Lf ± ovate, margin entire, wavy or not; corolla 15–25 mm wide; CaR, SNH, GB ..... C. nana
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