Key to Glossopetalon

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

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

1. Leaf spine-tipped; stipules 0; flowers terminal; fruit 1, < 1 mm ..... G. pungens

1' Leaf tip rounded or short-pointed; stipules as 2 minute bristles near 

leaf 

Organ arising from a stem, generally composed of a stalk (petiole) and a flat, expanded, green, photosynthetic area (blade); distinguished from a leaflet by the presence in its axil of a bud, branch, thorn, or flower; sometimes with lateral, basal appendages (stipules); either simple (toothed, lobed, or dissected but not divided into leaflets) or compound (divided into leaflets).

base; flowers 

axillary 

Pertaining to or within an axil, especially a leaf axil.

; fruit 1–2, 3–5.5 mm ..... G. spinescens var. aridum

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