The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California

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Names are linked to treatments from the Manual


Key to PITTOSPORUM

N.B.: couplets are linked, e.g., 1. is linked to 1'.

  1. Corolla white; flower fragrant; seed ± red
 
    2. Shrub, small tree; leaf obovate, leathery, tip generally rounded, margin turned under
P. tobira
    2' Tree; leaf widely lanceolate, papery, tip acuminate, margin ± wavy
P. undulatum
  1' Corolla dark red to purple black; flower not fragrant; seed purple-black or black
 
    3. Leaf oblong to obovate, leathery, margin turned under, lower surface densely hairy
P. crassifolium
    3' LF oblong to oblong-ovate, papery, margin ± wavy, lower surface glabrous
P. tenuifolium


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