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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. |
Tree, evergreen.
Stem: trunk bark gray to red-brown, peeling in strips.
Leaf: opposite, simple or compound; stipules deciduous; petiole 1–3 cm; blade ± gray abaxially, dark shiny green adaxially.
Inflorescence: panicle, generally flat-topped; pedicel bractlets 1–3, at top.
Flower: hypanthium bell-shaped, tomentose, bractlets 0; sepals persistent; petals ± round, white; stamens ± 15; pistils 2, ovary superior, style stout, stigma ± head-like.
Fruit: follicles 2, 3–4 mm, woody.
Seed: 1–4, ± 2 mm, compressed, ± brown. Subspp. hybridize in cultivation; endemic to ChI. [Online Interchange]
1. Lf generally palmately to pinnately compound ..... subsp. aspleniifolius
1' Lf generally simple ..... subsp. floribundus
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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