Key to Triteleia

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

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

1. Stamens attached alternately at 2 levels

2. Ovary 2–6 × stalk; perianth tube rounded or short-tapered at base

3. Perianth 17–35 mm, white to blue-purple; filaments triangular; KR(?), CaR ..... T. grandiflora

3' Perianth 11–21 mm, yellow; filaments 

linear 

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

; s SNF ..... T. piutensis

2' Ovary <= stalk; perianth tube 

acute 

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

to long-tapered at base (rounded at base in Triteleia hyacinthina, Triteleia lilacina)

4. Stamens unequal

5. Pedicel 7–20 mm; perianth 12–19 mm, bright yellow or pale blue; ovary green ..... T. crocea

5' Pedicel 20–180 mm; perianth 15–28 mm, white, often flushed violet abaxially; ovary bright yellow ..... T. peduncularis

4' Stamens ± equal

6. Perianth 16–27 mm, lavender; anthers ± 1.5 mm, purple; s ChI (San Clemente Island) ..... T. clementina

6' Perianth 18–47 mm, blue, blue-purple, or white; anthers 2–5 mm, white to ± blue; NW, CaR, SN, CW, TR ..... T. laxa

1' Stamens attached at 1 level

7. Stamens ± equal

8. Perianth 27–45 mm, tube 

tapered 

Gradually (not abruptly) narrower or smaller at base or tip.

at base, > 

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.

..... T. bridgesii

8' Perianth 7–26 mm, tube bowl-shaped to tapered at base, < lobes

9. Perianth tube yellow or white, often tinged or fading blue, or yellow aging purple

10. Perianth 18–26 mm, filaments < 1/2 perianth lobes ..... T. hendersonii

10' Perianth 12–17 mm, filaments > 1/2 perianth lobes ..... T. montana

9' Perianth tube white (occasionally flushed purple abaxially), blue, or lilac

11. Filaments generally triangular; anthers ± white to yellow ..... T. hyacinthina

11' Filaments linear; anthers lilac or lilac-dotted ..... T. lilacina

7' Stamens unequal

12. Tips of longer filaments rounded, without appendages ..... T. lugens

12' Tips of longer filaments not rounded, generally with appendages

13. Filament tip appendages 0 or short, blunt; perianth tube = lobes ..... T. dudleyi

13' Filament tip appendages 

forked 

Pertaining to a hair or other structure that branches into two parts.

, pointed; perianth tube <= lobes ..... T. ixioides

14. Leaf 1, 10–20 cm ..... subsp. unifolia

14' Leaves 1–2, 10–50 cm

15. Perianth tube ± = lobes, white to pale straw-colored – w-c SCoRO (s Santa Lucia Range) ..... subsp. cookii

15' Perianth tube < lobes, yellow (drying ± blue) or gold-yellow or straw-colored to pale yellow

16. Anthers generally blue or cream; filament tip appendages straight or incurved – KR, CaR, SN ..... subsp. anilina

16' Anthers cream or yellow, occasionally blue; filament tip appendages ± straight to 

recurved 

Gradually curved downward or backward.

17. Perianth tube 7–10 mm; c&s CCo, sw SnFrB, SCoRI ..... subsp. ixioides

17' Perianth tube 3–7 mm; KR, CaR, SN ..... subsp. scabra

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