Key to Lipocarpha
View taxon page for Lipocarpha
(For a list of species in Lipocarpha, use the above link.)
Jepson Manual glossary definitions can be seen by moving your cursor over words underlined with dots.
1. Outer flower
bract 
Reduced, leaf- or scale-like structure subtending a branch, cone scale, peduncle, pedicel, or flower.
awn 
1. Bristle-like appendage or elongation, generally terminal. 2. Stiff, needle-like pappus element in Asteraceae.
(0.6)1–1.5 mm, outcurved;
fruit light brown
..... L. occidentalis 1' Outer flower bract awn <= 1 mm, ± straight to outcurved; fruit light red-brown to black or light to dark brown
2. Inner flower bract ± = fruit; outer flower bract awn 0.5–1 mm; fruit light red-brown to black
..... L. aristulata 2' Inner flower bract 0 or < 1/2 fruit; outer flower bract awn < 0.2 mm; fruit light to dark brown
..... L. micrantha
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