Key to Taraxia

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

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

1. Leaf pinnately lobed; plant hairs ± dense, 

spreading 

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

or 

appressed 

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

; 

hypanthium 

Structure generally in the shape of a tube, cup, or bowl, derived from the fused lower portions of the perianth and stamens, from which these parts seem to arise, and to which the ovary wall is fused in an inferior ovary (to which the ovary wall is partially fused in a half-inferior ovary; from which the ovary is free in a superior ovary).

4–8.5 mm; stigma exceeding anthers ..... T. tanacetifolia

1' Leaf not pinnately lobed (or plant ± glabrous); hypanthium 1.5–3 mm; stigma at same level as or slightly exceeding anthers

2. Leaf hairs short, 

erect 

Upright; vertically oriented.

; fruit ± 

cylindric 

Elongate, with parallel sides and, at any point, round in transverse section.

(swollen by seeds), papery ..... T. ovata

2' Leaf ± glabrous; fruit 4-angled, barely swollen by seeds, leathery ..... T. subacaulis

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