The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California

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Names are linked to treatments from the Manual


Key to PLECTRITIS

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

  1. Spur generally < 1/2 corolla tube length (sometimes ± 0), slender, tip generally enlarged; fruit winged or not, wing margins not thickened; convex side of fruit body generally keeled, not grooved lengthwise
 
    2. Corolla 1.5–3.5 mm, white to very pale pink
P. brachystemon
    2' Corolla 4–9.5 mm, pale to dark pink
P. congesta
  1' Spur generally 1/2+ corolla tube length, slender or blunt, tip not enlarged; fruit winged, wing margins thickened; convex side of fruit body grooved lengthwise, not keeled
 
    3. Corolla white to pale pink, ± radial, lobes ± equal, not red-spotted, spur thick, blunt; fruit glabrous to hairy near tip or along margins
P. macrocera
    3' Corolla pink to dark pink, 2-lipped, lower lip with 2 red spots, spur slender, pointed; fruit hairs in vertical bands
P. ciliosa
      4. Corolla 3.5–8.5 mm, spur > ovary
subsp. ciliosa
      4' Corolla 1.5–3.5 mm, spur generally < ovary
subsp. insignis


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