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Up-to-date information about California vascular plants is available from the Jepson eFlora.
Names are linked to treatments from the Manual
Key to OPHIOGLOSSUM
N.B.: couplets are linked, e.g., 1. is linked to 1'.
1. Sterile leaf parts 1–2(3) per caudex, blade lanceolate, < 3(–4.3) cm, < 1 cm wide, ± abruptly narrowed to stalk, tip with small, stiff point; fertile leaf part 1–2.5 × sterile leaf part
1' Sterile leaf part 1 per caudex, blade oblanceolate to obovate, generally < 10 cm, < 3.5 cm wide, tapered to stalk, tip without point; fertile leaf part 2.5–4.5 × sterile leaf part