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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 from large taproot.
Stem: much-branched.
Leaf: petioled; blade < 8 cm, fleshy, margin often wavy.
Inflorescence: head or umbel; bracts 5–10, green; flowers maturing 1 side of inflorescence before the other; receptacle flat or rounded, studded with peg-shaped pedicel-like projections 1–3 mm.
Flower: nocturnal, perianth trumpet-shaped, lobes 4–5; stamens 3–5, included; stigma linear, included.
Fruit: wings 2–4, wide, surrounding fruit body, translucent, conspicuously net-veined.
4 species: arid North America. (Greek, Latin: 3-winged cup, from fruit) [Galloway 2003 FNANM 4:70–71] Closely related to Abronia.
1. Perianth (8)18–25 mm, lobes obvious; fruit wings 2(3), hairy on margins and generally on veins near base; MP ..... T. crux-maltae
1' Perianth 6–18 mm, lobes inconspicuous; fruit wings (2)3(4), hairy only on margins; DMoj ..... T. micranthus
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) [year] Jepson eFlora, http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/IJM.html [accessed on month, day, year]
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