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Key to ValerianaceaeView taxon page for Valerianaceae
Jepson Manual glossary definitions can be seen by moving your cursor over words underlined with dots. 1. Perennial herb; 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. rolled inward, plumose  Plume-like, usually with the parts arrayed in three dimensions around an axis, or in tufts held together at the base; usually pertaining to small, finely divided structures, such as certain stigmas and pappus elements. in age, pappus-like in fruit 2. Corolla generally ± purple-red, spur 4–6 mm; stamen 1; cauline leaves entire  Having margins that are continuous and smooth (i.e., without teeth, lobes, etc.). , base occasionally with small lobes ..... CENTRANTHUS 2' Corolla white to pink, throat swollen at base, spur 0; stamens 3; cauline leaves pinnately lobed to compound ..... VALERIANA 1' Annual; calyx generally 0 3. Stem simple  Composed of a single part; undivided; unbranched. or unequally few-branched; corolla generally spurred; ovary 1-chambered ..... PLECTRITIS 3' Stem equally, repeatedly forked  Pertaining to a hair or other structure that branches into two parts. ; corolla throat ± swollen at base, spur 0; ovary(2)3-chambered ..... VALERIANELLA
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