Key to Anisocarpus

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(For a list of species in Anisocarpus, use the above link.)

Jepson Manual glossary definitions can be seen by moving your cursor over words underlined with dots.

1. Leaves dark green, 4–13 cm, 

entire 

Having margins that are continuous and smooth (i.e., without teeth, lobes, etc.).

or shallowly toothed; ray flowers 7–15; 

involucre 

Group of bracts more or less held together as a unit, subtending a flower, fruit (acorn cup), or inflorescence.

4–6 mm, ± spheric; disk flowers staminate; ray fruit 

compressed 

Flattened side-to-side or front-to-back.

side-to-side; disk pappus 0.2–1.5 mm, of 5–8, 

linear 

Elongate, with nearly parallel sides; narrower than elliptic or oblong.

to 

lanceolate 

Narrowly elongate, widest in the basal half, often tapered to an acute tip.

or ± square, 

fringed 

Having ragged or finely cut margins.

 scales ..... A. madioides

1' Leaves ± blue-green, 1–3 cm, entire; ray flowers 0 or 1–3; involucre 6–12 mm, widely ellipsoid to bell-shaped; disk flowers 

bisexual 

Both male and female reproductive parts occurring and functional in the same plant or structure (e.g., flower, spikelet, inflorescence).

, forming fruits; ray fruit ± compressed front-to-back; disk pappus 4–7 mm, of 11–21, awl-shaped, or ± bristle-like, ciliate-plumose scales ..... A. scabridus

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