The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California

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Names are linked to treatments from the Manual


Key to PHOENIX

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

  1. Trunk thick, < 20 m; leaves ± 50–100, in dense crown, all ± arching; basal sprouts 0 (trunk 1)
P. canariensis
  1' Trunk slender, generally < 30 m; leaves 20–40, in ± open crown, uppermost erect, others ± stiffly drooping; basal sprouts present when young (trunks several if plant unpruned)
P. dactylifera


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