The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California

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Names are linked to treatments from the Manual


Key to THYSANOCARPUS

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

  1. Fruit pedicel sharply bent near tip; fruit ± round, (6)8–10 mm, wing wide, rays very distinct, vein-like
T. radians
  1' Fruit pedicel curved to straight; fruit elliptic to round, < 8 mm, wing narrow to ± wide, rays 0 or ± indistinct, not vein-like
 
    2. Fruit bowl-shaped, wing strongly curved to flat or concave side; pedicel curved to straight
T. conchuliferus
    2' Fruit ± flat, wing flat to ± curved to convex side; pedicel curved
 
      3. Cauline leaves lobed at base, clasping stem, often sagittate, (ob)lanceolate, lower dentate to shallowly lobed; style included in or exserted from fruit sinus; fruit elliptic to round; wing often perforated
T. curvipes
      3' Cauline leaves generally tapered at base, generally not clasping stem, linear, lower ± entire to ± deeply lobed; style generally exserted from fruit sinus; fruit elliptic to obovate; wing perforated or not
T. laciniatus


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