Key to Triodanis

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

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

1. Ovary 

elliptic 

In the shape of a flattened circle or ellipse; wider than linear

to ovoid, narrowed at top; 

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).

widely 

lanceolate 

Narrowly elongate, widest in the basal half, often tapered to an acute tip.

to 

ovate 

Egg-shaped (i.e., widest below the middle) in two dimensions (i.e., in one plane), as a leaf.

, base not clasping stem ..... T. biflora

1' Ovary 

oblong 

Longer than wide, with nearly parallel sides; wider than linear.

to obovoid, not narrowed at top; leaf round-cordate, base generally clasping stem ..... T. perfoliata

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