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Annual, perennial herb, shrub, vine.
Leaf: simple or compound, cauline (or most basal), alternate or opposite; stipules 0.
Inflorescence: cymes, heads, clusters, or flower 1; bracts in involucres or not.
Flower: sepals generally 5, fused at base, translucent membrane generally connecting lobes, torn by fruit; corolla generally 5-lobed, radial or bilateral, salverform to bell-shaped, throat often well defined; stamens generally 5, epipetalous, attached at >= 1 level, filaments of >= 1 length, pollen white, yellow, blue, or red; ovary superior, chambers generally 3, style 1, stigmas generally 3.
Fruit: capsule.
Seed: 1–many, when wetted swelling or not, gelatinous or not.
26 genera, 314 species: Am, n Eur, n Asia; some cultivated (Cantua, Cobaea (cup-and-saucer vine), Collomia, Gilia, Ipomopsis, Linanthus, Phlox). [Porter & Johnson 2000 Aliso 19:55–91] Leptodactylon moved to Linanthus. —Scientific Editors: Robert Patterson, Thomas J. Rosatti.
Annual, hairy, ± minutely glandular.Key to Allophyllum
Stem: erect, generally branched.
Leaf: alternate, dark green, generally deeply pinnate-lobed, ± palmate-lobed upward; lobes linear to lanceolate, blunt-tipped, central lobe widest.
Inflorescence: flowers generally in clusters.
Flower: calyx tube narrowly membranous between lobes, lobes blunt-tipped, translucent below in fruit, membrane splitting; corolla radial or bilateral, funnel-shaped, throat narrow, tapered, lobes narrowly obovate; stamens attached in tube.
Fruit: < calyx, spheric; valves generally falling.
Seed: 1–3 per chamber, concave, black or brown, gelatinous when wet, ends rounded.
4 species: w North America. (Greek: other leaf) [Grant & Grant 1955 Aliso 3:93–110]
Plant odor skunk-like.
Stem: < 60 cm; glands generally long-stalked.
Leaf: lobes of lower 3–13, 4–8 mm wide, ± lanceolate.
Inflorescence: open or dense; flowers 2–8 in clusters; pedicels elongating in fruit.
Flower: corolla 8–22 mm, tube red-purple, lobes 2–4 mm, pink; stamens unequal, included or longest exserted; style included or exserted.
Seed: 1–3 per chamber, brown.
2n=16,18. Sandy areas, chaparral, woodland; 300–1800 m. Klamath Ranges, Inner North Coast Ranges, s Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada Foothills, San Francisco Bay Area, South Coast Ranges, Transverse Ranges, Peninsular Ranges.
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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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Chart based on elevation range in Manual and elevations and coordinates of CCH records. Data provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria. Note: About half of the CCH records include both elevation and coordinates. | Map made in collaboration with Scott Loarie. Data provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria.
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