The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California

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Names are linked to treatments from the Manual


Key to CHRYSOLEPIS

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

  1. Leaf tip generally obtuse or rounded; blade ± elliptic; leaves 2–8 cm; shrub generally << 3 m, rounded; bark generally ± thin, smooth
 C. sempervirens
  1' Leaf abruptly long-pointed; blade oblong to lanceolate; leaves 5–13 cm; shrub or tree, top conic; bark ± thick, rough, furrowed
 C. chrysophylla
    2. Tree, 15+ m; leaf blade ± flat
 var. chrysophylla
    2' Shrub (or tree-like), < 5(10) m; leaf blade folded, margins upturned
 var. minor

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