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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] shrub, [ vine] tree, generally with milky juice; monoecious or dioecious.
Leaf: alternate [ opposite], petioled, generally simple, entire to lobed, evergreen or deciduous; stipules present.
Inflorescence: raceme, spike, head, or flowers enclosed in thick receptacle, axillary.
Flower: unisexual or bisexual, small, ± radial; sepals generally 4, free or fused at base; petals 0; stamens generally 4, opposite sepals; ovary generally superior, 1-chambered, style simple or 2-parted.
Fruit: achenes many within fleshy calyces or surrounded by fleshy inflorescence receptacle.
37 genera, 1100 species: tropics, subtrop, some temperate; many cultivated (Ficus, fig; Artocarpus, breadfruit, jackfruit; Morus, mulberry). Insect- or wind-pollinated. —Scientific Editors: Douglas H. Goldman, Bruce G. Baldwin.
1. Lvs pinnately veined, entire; stem axils generally with 1 stout thorn to 3 cm; fruit 9–15 cm, spheric ..... MACLURA
1' Lvs palmately 3–5-veined, lobed or not, toothed; stems unarmed; fruit 1–8 cm, obovoid to short-cylindric or ± spheric.
2. Lf blade 11–32 cm, 13–37 cm wide, petiole 4–12 cm; fruit not lobed, surface not segmented; buds inside conic stipules; stipule scar encircling stem ..... FICUS
2' Lf blade 5–16 cm, 3–16 cm wide, petiole 1–4 cm; fruit lobed, segmented; buds scaly; stipule scars obscure, not encircling stem ..... MORUS
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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