Key to Garrya
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(For a list of species in Garrya, use the above link.)
Jepson Manual glossary definitions can be seen by moving your cursor over words underlined with dots.
1. Abaxial
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).
hairs dense, curly-wavy, interwoven, felt-like, not
appressed 
Parallel or nearly parallel to and often in contact with surface of origin; used to describe the disposition of hairs, leaves, pedicels, etc.
toward leaf tip
2. Leaf margin ± to strongly wavy and often ± to strongly rolled under;
pistillate flowers (1)3 per
bract 
Reduced, leaf- or scale-like structure subtending a branch, cone scale, peduncle, pedicel, or flower.
;
inflorescence in
fruit 18–28 mm wide; NCo, NCoRO, ScV, CCo, SnFrB, SCoRO
..... G. elliptica 2' Leaf margin flat to ± wavy and sometimes ± rolled under; pistillate flowers 1(3) per bract; inflorescence in fruit 13–18 mm wide; SCoRO, SW
..... G. veatchii 1' Abaxial leaf hairs 0 to dense, straight to wavy, not felt-like, appressed toward leaf tip
3. Abaxial leaf hairs 0 (or sparse on young leaves); fruit
glabrous or near tip sparsely hairy
..... G. fremontii 3' Abaxial leaf hairs sparse to dense; fruit dense-hairy, glabrous, or near tip sparsely hairy
4' Abaxial leaf hairs sparse to dense, ± coarse, straight to ± curved
5. Fruit glabrous or near tip sparsely hairy;
abaxial leaf hairs generally dense; NW
..... G. buxifolia 5' Fruit generally dense-hairy; abaxial leaf hairs sparse to ± dense; NW, SN, CW, SW, DMtns
..... G. flavescens
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