Key to Volutaria

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

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

1. Heads radiant; corollas of sterile flowers conspicuous, ray-like, >> disk corollas, pink-purple or lavender, 

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.

 

spreading 

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

..... V. muricata

1' Heads disciform; corollas of sterile flowers inconspicuous, not ray-like, <= disk corollas, white, lobes ± 

erect 

Upright; vertically oriented.

..... V. tubuliflora

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