The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California

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Names are linked to treatments from the Manual


Key to ACANTHACEAE

N.B.: couplets are linked, e.g., 1. is linked to 1'.

  1. Corolla resembling pea flower, < 2 cm, tube < lips, white with yellow, maroon-streaked eye on upper lip; anther sacs ± equally inserted on filament, not spurred; fruit glabrous
CARLOWRIGHTIA (no key)
  1' Corolla long-tubular, > 2 cm, tube > lips, reddish (rarely yellow) throughout; anther sacs unequally inserted on filament, lower sac spurred; fruit canescent
JUSTICIA (no key)


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