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Key to Claytonia(For a list of species in Claytonia, use the above link.) Jepson Manual glossary definitions can be seen by moving your cursor over words underlined with dots.
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Generally short, sometimes woody, more or less vertical stem of a perennial, at or beneath ground level.
Elongate, with nearly parallel sides; narrower than elliptic or oblong.
Longer than wide, with nearly parallel sides; wider than linear.
Egg-shaped (i.e., widest below the middle) in two dimensions (i.e., in one plane), as a leaf.
In the shape of a flattened circle or ellipse; wider than linear
Without a petiole, peduncle, pedicel, or other kind of stalk.
1. An incompletely developed, more or less embryonic shoot, usually covered with bud scales. 2. An unopened flower, often protected by sepals.
Reduced, leaf- or scale-like structure subtending a branch, cone scale, peduncle, pedicel, or flower.
Position on a stem from which one or more structures (especially leaves, buds, branches, or flowers) arise.
At or near the base of a plant or plant part. Especially said of leaves clustered near the ground or of a placenta confined to the base of an ovary.
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).
Expanded portion of a leaf, petal, or other structure, generally flat but sometimes rolled, cylindric, wavy, or cupped.
Abruptly (not gradually) narrower or smaller at base or tip, as if cut straight across or nearly so.
Heart-shaped; often pertaining to a leaf in which the blade base on both sides of the petiole is rounded and convex.
Leaf stalk, connecting leaf blade to stem; sometimes more or less indistinct.
Gradually (not abruptly) narrower or smaller at base or tip.
Completing life cycle (germination through death) in more than two years or growing seasons, generally non-woody (at least above ground) to woody; includes perennial herbs as well as subshrubs to trees; the abbreviation 'per' only refers to perennial herb, not to the word 'perennial' alone.
Narrowly elongate, widest in the basal half, often tapered to an acute tip.
More or less equilaterally triangular, with the corners rounded or not.
Kidney-shaped; often pertaining to a leaf in which the blade base on both sides of the petiole is rounded and concave.
Lying flat on the ground.
lying mostly flat on the ground but with tips curving up.
Upright; vertically oriented.
Protruding out of surrounding structure(s) (e.g., stamens exserted from corolla).
Oriented more or less perpendicularly to the axis of attachment; often, more or less horizontal.
Having a short-tapered, blunt tip or base, the sides convex or straight and converging at more than a right angle.
Having a short-tapered, sharp tip, the sides convex or straight and converging at less than a right angle. |
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