Key to Geraea

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

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

1. Rays present; annual from taproot; leaves 

sessile 

Without a petiole, peduncle, pedicel, or other kind of stalk.

or 

tapered 

Gradually (not abruptly) narrower or smaller at base or tip.

to winged 

petiole 

Leaf stalk, connecting leaf blade to stem; sometimes more or less indistinct.

, ± canescent, bases not ear-like; phyllaries 

acute 

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

, 

ciliate 

Having generally straight, conspicuous hairs along margins or edges.

..... G. canescens

1' Rays 0; 

perennial 

Completing life cycle (germination through death) in more than two years or growing seasons, generally non-woody (at least above ground) to woody; includes perennial herbs as well as subshrubs to trees; the abbreviation 'per' only refers to perennial herb, not to the word 'perennial' alone.

 herb from an underground 

caudex 

Generally short, sometimes woody, more or less vertical stem of a perennial, at or beneath ground level.

; leaves sessile, glandular-puberulent, bases ear-like; phyllaries 

obtuse 

Having a short-tapered, blunt tip or base, the sides convex or straight and converging at more than a right angle.

, glandular ..... G. viscida

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