Key to Allophyllum

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

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

1. Widest leaves or 

leaf 

Organ arising from a stem, generally composed of a stalk (petiole) and a flat, expanded, green, photosynthetic area (blade); distinguished from a leaflet by the presence in its axil of a bud, branch, thorn, or flower; sometimes with lateral, basal appendages (stipules); either simple (toothed, lobed, or dissected but not divided into leaflets) or compound (divided into leaflets).

 

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.

2–4 mm wide, 

linear 

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

to narrowly 

lanceolate 

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

; corolla dark blue-purple; stem glands short-stalked ..... A. gilioides

2. Flowers 4–8 in ± dense clusters ..... subsp. gilioides

2' Flowers 1 or loosely paired or in 3s, not clustered ..... subsp. violaceum

1' Widest leaves or leaf lobes 3–15 mm wide, lanceolate to 

elliptic 

In the shape of a flattened circle or ellipse; wider than linear

; corolla not dark blue-purple; stem glands short- or long-stalked

3. Corolla ± 2-lipped, lobes 1/2 to = tube + throat; longest stamens well 

exserted 

Protruding out of surrounding structure(s) (e.g., stamens exserted from corolla).

..... A. glutinosum

3' Corolla not 2-lipped; lobes < 1/3 tube + throat; longest stamens exserted or including

4. Lower leaves 3–13-lobed; corolla 8–22 mm, tube red-purple, lobes pink ..... A. divaricatum

4' Lower leaves 

entire 

Having margins that are continuous and smooth (i.e., without teeth, lobes, etc.).

or coarsely toothed; corolla <= 11 mm, white to pale blue ..... A. integrifolium

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