Key to Funastrum

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

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

1. Corolla 

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.

erect-incurved, meeting above anther 

head 

1. A dense, often spheric inflorescence of sessile or subsessile flowers.
2. In Asteraceae and some other groups, a head-like inflorescence is one in which sessile or subsessile inflorescence units (e.g., heads in Asteraceae, umbels enclosed by involucres in Eriogonum), instead of individual flowers, are attached in a short dense cluster without an evident axis or branches.

, giving appearance of closed flower 

bud 

1. An incompletely developed, more or less embryonic shoot, usually covered with bud scales. 2. An unopened flower, often protected by sepals.

; filament 

column 

Structure at the center of an orchid flower formed by fusion of stamen(s) and style.

appendages ± 0; ring of tissue at corolla base 0 ..... F. utahense

1' Corolla lobes ± 

spreading 

Oriented more or less perpendicularly to the axis of attachment; often, more or less horizontal.

to ± 

erect 

Upright; vertically oriented.

, not meeting, not giving appearance of closed flower bud; filament column appendages free from each other; ring of tissue at corolla base present

2. Leaf narrow- to wide-lanceolate, margins generally wavy; calyx lobes 3–6 mm; corolla 8–12 mm; filament column 1–2 mm, appendage bases exceeding ring of tissue at corolla base; fruit generally 1, 8.5–12.5 cm ..... F. crispum

2' Leaf 

linear 

Elongate, with nearly parallel sides; narrower than elliptic or oblong.

to 

lanceolate 

Narrowly elongate, widest in the basal half, often tapered to an acute tip.

, margins not wavy; calyx lobes 2–3 mm; corolla 3–8 mm; filament column 0.5–1 mm, appendage bases not exceeding ring of tissue at corolla base; fruit 1–2, 3.6–4.8 or 7.2–11.2 cm

3. Corolla 4–8 mm, ring of tissue at base free from filament column appendages; plant green, generally with sparse, ± 

appressed 

Parallel or nearly parallel to and often in contact with surface of origin; used to describe the disposition of hairs, leaves, pedicels, etc.

 hairs; fruit generally 1, 7.2–11.2 cm ..... F. cynanchoides var. hartwegii

3' Corolla 3–6 mm, ring of tissue at base fused to filament column appendages; plant gray-green, generally with dense, short, erect hairs; fruit generally 2, 3.6–4.8 cm ..... F. hirtellum

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