The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California

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Names are linked to treatments from the Manual


Key to LEPTOCHLOA

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

  1. Spikelets 1–3 mm, compressed; florets 2–4; lemma strongly keeled
L. mucronata
  1' Spikelets 4–12 mm, ± cylindric; florets (4)5–12; lemma rounded
 
    2. Lemma obtuse to truncate, abruptly pointed
L. uninervia
    2' Lemma generally acute, awned, awn 0.5–3(5) mm
 
      3. Spikelets 6–12 mm
L. fascicularis
      3' Spikelets 4–6 mm
L. viscida


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