Key to Monotropa
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(For a list of species in Monotropa, use the above link.)
Jepson Manual glossary definitions can be seen by moving your cursor over words underlined with dots.
1. Inflorescence raceme-like, flowers rarely 1; plant ± yellow to pink or red;
stigma shallowly
depressed 
Flattened from above and below, or with the center lower than the margins.
, often subtended by ring of bristly
hairs;
nectary lobes 
1. A major expansion or bulge, such as on the margin of a leaf, sepal, or petal, or on the surface of an ovary. 2. The free tips of otherwise fused structures, such as sepals or petals; larger than teeth.
short,
stout;
fruit segments thin-walled, often irregularly
deciduous ..... M. hypopitys 1' Flowers 1; plant white (pink or red-orange); stigma widely funnel-like, not subtended by hairs; nectary lobes elongate, slender; fruit segments thick-walled,
persistent ..... M. uniflora
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