Key to Xanthisma

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

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

1. Annual ..... X. gracile

1' Perennial herb or subshrub

2. Distal bracts of 

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).

overlapping, grading into phyllaries; stem nearly leafless above base ..... X. junceum

2' Distal bracts of peduncle few, well separated, not grading into phyllaries; stem generally leafy, at least in proximal 1/2 ..... X. spinulosum var. gooddingii

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