The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California

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Names are linked to treatments from the Manual


Key to MONOTROPA

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

  1. Inflorescence raceme-like, flowers rarely solitary; plant yellowish to pink or red; stigma shallowly depressed, often subtended by ring of bristly hairs; nectary lobes short, stout; fruit segments thin-walled, often irregularly deciduous
M. hypopithys
  1' Flowers solitary; plant white, rarely pink or reddish orange; stigma widely funnel-like, not subtended by hairs; nectary lobes elongate, slender; fruit segments thick-walled, persistent
M. uniflora


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