Key to Dipterostemon

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

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

1. Scape <= 20(23) cm; flowers 1–2(3); perianth tube <= 4(4.5) mm, << 

lobes 

1. A major expansion or bulge, such as on the margin of a leaf, sepal, or petal, or on the surface of an ovary. 2. The free tips of otherwise fused structures, such as sepals or petals; larger than teeth.

; outer perianth 

lobe 

1. A major expansion or bulge, such as on the margin of a leaf, sepal, or petal, or on the surface of an ovary. 2. The free tips of otherwise fused structures, such as sepals or petals; larger than teeth.

width > inner lobe width ..... D. capitatus subsp. lacuna-vernalis

1' Scape > 23 cm; flowers 2–16(25); perianth tube generally > 4 mm, <= lobes; outer perianth lobe width <= inner lobe width

2. Bracts generally dark purple; flowers 2–16(25); 

pedicels 

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

(1)2–12(20) mm, generally < bracts ..... subsp. capitatus

2' Bracts ± white or streaked purple; flowers 2–5; pedicels 6–35 mm, > bracts ..... subsp. pauciflorus

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