Key to Croton
View taxon page for Croton
(For a list of species in Croton, use the above link.)
Jepson Manual glossary definitions can be seen by moving your cursor over words underlined with dots.
1. Annual;
monoecious;
ovary 1-chambered,
style 1,
simple 
Composed of a single part; undivided; unbranched.
..... C. setiger 1' Perennial herb to
shrub;
dioecious; ovary 3-chambered,
styles 3, 2-lobed,
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.
2-forked
2. Seed 3.5–5.5 mm;
pedicels 
Stalk of an individual flower in an inflorescence, or the corresponding structure in fruit.
in
fruit 1–1.5(3) mm;
staminate sepals ± 2–2.5 mm; Teh, SnJV, CCo, SCoR, SCo, s ChI (Santa Catalina Island), TR, PR, D
..... C. californicus 2' Seed 6.5–7 mm; pedicels in fruit 4–7 mm; staminate sepals 2.5–3 mm; se DSon (se Imperial Co.)
..... C. wigginsii
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