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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 [or not], unarmed, hairy, gland-dotted or not.
Leaf: odd-1- pinnate; stipules obscure; leaflets opposite.
Inflorescence: open raceme or dense spike, terminal.
Flower: calyx lobes < tube; corolla generally 2-colored (blue-violet, white), petals (except banner) from side of filament column; stamens 9–10, filaments fused; ovule 1.
Fruit: indehiscent, included or ± exserted.
Seed: 1.
38 species: sw US to C.Am, especially Mex. (Marina, interpreter for Mexican conqueror Cortez, 16th century)
Unabridged references: [Barneby 1977 Mem New York Bot Gard 27:55–133; 608–649]
1. St decumbent, not gland-dotted; inflorescence dense, flowers reflexed or spreading; eastern PR (Santa Rosa Mtns) ..... M. orcuttii var. orcuttii
1' St ascending or erect, gland-dotted; inflorescence open, flowers spreading to ascending; D ..... M. parryi
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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