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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. |
Daughter corms generally sessile.
Leaf: 2–5, generally keeled, entire, glabrous, occasionally withered by flower.
Inflorescence: raceme- or umbel-like, generally dense; scape generally curved, twisted, or twining, cylindric; bracts ± papery; pedicels generally < flowers.
Flower: perianth tube cylindric to bell-shaped, appendages at junction of tube, lobes forming crown; staminodes 0 (3, stamen-like); stamens 3, equal, or 6, unequal, 3 smaller, filaments fused to perianth tube, forming crown-like tube outside anthers, anthers attached at base; style 1, stigma weakly 3-lobed.
Fruit: generally sessile, generally ovoid, 3-angled.
Seed: sharp-angled, black-crusted.
5 species: w US, especially n CA, n Mex. (Greek: toothed crown, from perianth appendages) [Keator 1992 Four Seasons 9:24–39]
1. Perianth tube cylindric, >= 20 mm; inflorescence open; perianth tube red, lobes yellow-green ..... D. ida-maia
1' Perianth tube cylindric to ± spheric, < 20 mm; inflorescence dense; perianth tube pink or not but not red, lobes not yellow-green
2. Scape twining; perianth pink (white); staminodes 3, stamen-like, alternate stamens ..... D. volubile
2' Scape straight or ± curved; perianth blue, purple, or white; staminodes 0
3. Stamens 6, unequal; perianth tube not narrowed above ovary ..... D. capitatum
4. Bracts generally dark purple (paler, striped dark purple); flowers 6–15; pedicels 1–15 mm, generally < bracts ..... subsp. capitatum
4' Bracts ± white or streaked purple; flowers 2–5; pedicels 6–35 mm, > bracts ..... subsp. pauciflorum
3' Stamens 3, equal; perianth tube narrowed above ovary or ± so
5. Perianth crown deep-notched; inflorescence raceme-like; perianth tube ± narrowed above ovary ..... D. congestum
5' Perianth crown truncate or rounded; inflorescence umbel-like; perianth tube narrowed above ovary ..... D. multiflorum
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