Key to Harmonia

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

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

1. Heads generally nodding in 

bud 

1. An incompletely developed, more or less embryonic shoot, usually covered with bud scales. 2. An unopened flower, often protected by sepals.

and fruit; ray pappus 0; disk pappus of 

lanceolate 

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

, long-tapered, minutely 

fringed 

Having ragged or finely cut margins.

 scales 2–3.7 mm ..... H. nutans

1' Heads generally 

erect 

Upright; vertically oriented.

in bud and fruit; ray pappus 0.2–1.5 mm; disk pappus of 

linear 

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

to lanceolate or awl-shaped, or 

oblong 

Longer than wide, with nearly parallel sides; wider than linear.

to square, fringed or 

plumose 

Plume-like, usually with the parts arrayed in three dimensions around an axis, or in tufts held together at the base; usually pertaining to small, finely divided structures, such as certain stigmas and pappus elements.

scales 0.2–3.5 mm

2. Leaves ± evenly distributed on stem; ray fruit strongly bowed abaxially, beaked, beak 0.4–0.5 mm; disk flowers staminate ..... H. doris-nilesiae

2' Leaves unevenly distributed, mostly along main, central stem and immediately proximal to branches supporting heads; ray fruit slightly or not bowed abaxially, beak 0 or pappus elevated adaxially 0.1–0.2 mm; some or all disk flowers 

bisexual 

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

3. Phyllaries densely white-soft-hairy near folded edges; ray fruit slightly bowed abaxially; disk pappus of linear and long-tapered to awl-shaped, plumose scales 1.2–3.5 mm ..... H. stebbinsii

3' Phyllaries coarsely hairy, or minutely so, near folded edges; ray fruit not bowed abaxially; disk pappus of lanceolate to linear or oblong to square, fringed scales 0.2–0.8 mm

4. Proximal, unbranched part of main, central stem generally > branches supporting heads, distal leaves of main stem not densely clustered; disk pappus of lanceolate to linear scales 0.6–0.8 mm ..... H. guggolziorum

4' Proximal, unbranched part of main, central stem generally < branches supporting heads, distal leaves of main stem densely clustered; disk pappus of oblong or square scales 0.2–0.5 mm ..... H. hallii

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