The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California

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Names are linked to treatments from the Manual


Key to DALEA

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

  1. Plant hairy, generally prostrate, sometimes tiny; stamens 9–10
 
    2. Calyx 3–7 mm, lobes ± = tube; inflorescence 8–15 mm wide; corolla > or ± = calyx; leaflet margin generally entire, flat
D. mollis
    2' Calyx 7–8 mm, lobes generally > tube; inflorescence generally 14–16 mm wide; corolla < calyx; leaflet margin generally shallowly lobed or wavy
D. mollissima
  1' Plant (except inflorescence) glabrous, ascending; stamens 5
 
    3. Inflorescence (minus corollas) ± 12–16 mm wide, axis not visible between fruits; calyx tube thinly papery, with long, silky, appressed hairs
D. ornata
    3' Inflorescence (minus corollas) 8–12 mm wide, axis visible between fruits; calyx tube leathery, puberulent
D. searlsiae


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