Key to Ditaxis
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(For a list of species in Ditaxis, use the above link.)
Jepson Manual glossary definitions can be seen by moving your cursor over words underlined with dots.
1' Plant hairy,
hairs 2-forked and
appressed 
Parallel or nearly parallel to and often in contact with surface of origin; used to describe the disposition of hairs, leaves, pedicels, etc.
, occasionally
simple 
Composed of a single part; undivided; unbranched.
or
glandular 2. Margin of
stipules,
bracts, and
pistillate sepals stalked-glandular;
inflorescence axis minutely spreading-hairy
..... D. claryana 2' Margin of stipules, bracts, and pistillate sepals glabrous or faintly glandular,
glands not stalked; inflorescence axis appressed-hairy
3. Subshrub,
stems brittle; pistillate sepals ± =
petals;
fruit appressed-hairy;
style 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.
expanded
..... D. lanceolata 3' Annual or
perennial 
Completing life cycle (germination through death) in more than two years or growing seasons, generally non-woody (at least above ground) to woody; includes perennial herbs as well as subshrubs to trees; the abbreviation 'per' only refers to perennial herb, not to the word 'perennial' alone.
herb (occasionally
woody at base), stems not brittle; pistillate sepals clearly > petals; fruit ± spreading-hairy; style lobes not expanded
4. Seeds angled in ×-section, clearly pitted;
leaves lanceolate 
Narrowly elongate, widest in the basal half, often tapered to an acute tip.
, not densely hairy,
entire 
Having margins that are continuous and smooth (i.e., without teeth, lobes, etc.).
to faintly toothed
..... D. neomexicana 4' Seeds round in ×-section, ±
striate, not clearly pitted; leaves widely
elliptic 
In the shape of a flattened circle or ellipse; wider than linear
to
ovate 
Egg-shaped (i.e., widest below the middle) in two dimensions (i.e., in one plane), as a leaf.
, densely hairy, clearly toothed
distally ..... D. serrata var. serrata
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