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Key to GeraniaceaeView taxon page for Geraniaceae
Jepson Manual glossary definitions can be seen by moving your cursor over words underlined with dots. 1. Flower ± bilateral  Divisible into mirror-image halves in only one way. ; nectary 1, deeply embedded into receptacle; fertile stamens 1–7, united at base ..... PELARGONIUM 1' Flower radial  Divisible into mirror-image halves in three or more ways. (± bilateral); nectaries 5, on petal bases; fertile stamens 5 or 10, free 2. Fertile stamens generally 10; 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). palmately lobed to divided ..... GERANIUM 2' Fertile stamens generally 5; leaf crenate  Pertaining to margins with shallow, rounded teeth, between which are usually acute sinuses (i.e., scalloped) to shallowly ± palmately lobed or generally pinnately lobed to compound 3. Staminodes 0; leaf simple  Composed of a single part; undivided; unbranched. , ± palmately lobed or not, veins ± palmate  More than two structures or parts (e.g., veins, lobes, or leaflets) radiating from a common point in two dimensions (i.e., in one plane). ..... CALIFORNIA 3' Staminodes 5, alternate  1. Arranged singly, often spirally, along an axis - e.g., one leaf per node. 2. Occurring in different ranks, appearing to be between, not directly above or below, as 'stamens alternate petals'. stamens; leaf simple to pinnately compound, veins pinnate  Feather-like; pertaining to veins, lobes, leaflets, or other structures arranged in two dimensions (i.e., in one plane) along either side of an axis; a leaf is odd-pinnate if there is a terminal leaflet, even-pinnate if there is not, and either odd- or even-pinnate may be 1-pinnate (blade divided into primary leaflets), 2-pinnate (primary leaflets divided into secondary leaflets), 3-pinnate (secondary leaflets divided into tertiary leaflets), etc. ..... ERODIUM
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