Key to Acanthomintha
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(For a list of species in Acanthomintha, use the above link.)
Jepson Manual glossary definitions can be seen by moving your cursor over words underlined with dots.
1. Stem hairs short
proximally, conspicuously
glandular distally;
style hairy; upper
corolla lip ± = lower, 2-lobed, deeply hooded
..... A. lanceolata 1' Stem hairs 0 to long, if glandular then inconspicuous; style
glabrous; upper corolla lip < lower,
entire 
Having margins that are continuous and smooth (i.e., without teeth, lobes, etc.).
, shallowly hooded
2' Upper stamens
fertile; anthers hairy; CW, WTR
3. Anthers pink-red;
margins of
distal leaves not spiny;
stem generally unbranched;
inflorescence generally
terminal; CCo, SnFrB
..... A. duttonii 3' Anthers cream; margins of distal leaves spiny; stem generally branched proximally; inflorescence terminal and
axillary 
Pertaining to or within an axil, especially a leaf axil.
; SCoR, WTR
..... A. obovata 4. Hairs of stem and
calyx 0 to short, not glandular;
bracts round to wider than long, cordate-clasping at base; SCoRO, w&c WTR
..... subsp. cordata 4' Hairs of stem and calyx short or long, some inconspicuously glandular; bracts generally longer than wide,
obtuse 
Having a short-tapered, blunt tip or base, the sides convex or straight and converging at more than a right angle.
to
truncate 
Abruptly (not gradually) narrower or smaller at base or tip, as if cut straight across or nearly so.
at base; SCoRI
..... subsp. obovata
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