Key to Jepsonia

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1. Leaf generally 1; flowers generally < 4; 

hypanthium 

Structure generally in the shape of a tube, cup, or bowl, derived from the fused lower portions of the perianth and stamens, from which these parts seem to arise, and to which the ovary wall is fused in an inferior ovary (to which the ovary wall is partially fused in a half-inferior ovary; from which the ovary is free in a superior ovary).

generally > 2 × calyx 

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.

; s SCo, PR ..... J. parryi

1' Leaves generally 2–3; flowers generally > 4; hypanthium < 1.5 × calyx lobes; ChI, n SNF (Calaveras Co.), c SNF

2. Petals persistent, withering; 

peduncle 

Stalk of an individual flower borne singly, not in an inflorescence, or of an entire inflorescence, or the corresponding structure in fruit; the stalk subtending an involucre (e.g., in Asteraceae, Polygonaceae).

red-pink, often drying tan; seeds pale brown; n&c SNF, n SnJV ..... J. heterandra

2' Petals persistent but not withering; peduncle ± green, often drying brown; seeds dark brown; ChI ..... J. malvifolia

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