The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California

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Key to LYTHRACEAE

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

  1. Hypanthium cylindric
LYTHRUM
  1' Hypanthium bell- to urn-shaped
 
    2. Flowers in axillary clusters; fruit irregularly dehiscent
AMMANNIA
    2' Flowers 1 per axil; fruit dehiscent by 2 or 4 valves
 
      3. Annual; stem prostrate to decumbent; leaf ± petioled; hypanthium partly enclosing fruit
Lythrum portula
      3' Perennial; stem ascending to erect; leaf sessile; hypanthium > fruit
ROTALA


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