Key to Ozomelis
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(For a list of species in Ozomelis, use the above link.)
Jepson Manual glossary definitions can be seen by moving your cursor over words underlined with dots.
1. Leaf blade Expanded portion of a leaf, petal, or other structure, generally flat but sometimes rolled, cylindric, wavy, or cupped.
ovate Egg-shaped (i.e., widest below the middle) in two dimensions (i.e., in one plane), as a leaf.
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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.
± deep, generally ±
entire Having margins that are continuous and smooth (i.e., without teeth, lobes, etc.).
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petal lobes narrowly triangular; occasionally 1
leaf Organ arising from a stem, generally composed of a stalk (petiole) and a flat, expanded, green, photosynthetic area (blade); distinguished from a leaflet by the presence in its axil of a bud, branch, thorn, or flower; sometimes with lateral, basal appendages (stipules); either simple (toothed, lobed, or dissected but not divided into leaflets) or compound (divided into leaflets).
cauline ..... O. diversifolia 1' Leaf blade ± round, lobes ± shallow,
teeth generally round; petal lobes ±
elliptic In the shape of a flattened circle or ellipse; wider than linear
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leaves all
basal At or near the base of a plant or plant part. Especially said of leaves clustered near the ground or of a placenta confined to the base of an ovary.
..... O. trifida
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