Key to Celtis

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

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

1. Blade abaxially uniformly soft-hairy, tip slender, long-acuminate; fruit 10–12 mm diam; 

pedicel 

Stalk of an individual flower in an inflorescence, or the corresponding structure in fruit.

in fruit 11–31 mm ..... C. australis

1' Blade abaxially smooth or scabrous between hairy veins, tip 

acute 

Having a short-tapered, sharp tip, the sides convex or straight and converging at less than a right angle.

or ± short-acuminate; mature fruit 5–8 mm diam; pedicel in fruit 4–10(18) mm

2. Shrub or small tree 3–5(10) m; 

blade 

Expanded portion of a leaf, petal, or other structure, generally flat but sometimes rolled, cylindric, wavy, or cupped.

thick, rigid, adaxially scabrous, abaxially ± all veins raised ..... C. reticulata

2' Tree to 20 m; blade flexible, adaxially smooth, abaxially only major veins raised ..... C. sinensis

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