Key to Noccaea fendleri

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

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

1. Fruit 

elliptic 

In the shape of a flattened circle or ellipse; wider than linear

, tip 

acute 

Having a short-tapered, sharp tip, the sides convex or straight and converging at less than a right angle.

, length 2.2–3.2 × width; 

pedicel 

Stalk of an individual flower in an inflorescence, or the corresponding structure in fruit.

 

ascending 

Curving or angling upward from base, or about 30-60 degrees less than vertical or away from axis of attachment.

to ± 

spreading 

Oriented more or less perpendicularly to the axis of attachment; often, more or less horizontal.

, forming 15–60(70)° angle with 

rachis 

In ferns, primary axis of a compound or dissected frond blade.

..... subsp. californica

1' Fruit obovate to obcordate, tip 

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.

or notched, length 1–2 × width; pedicel spreading to strongly descending, forming (60)70–130° angle with rachis ..... subsp. glauca

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