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Key to ExtriplexView taxon page for Extriplex
(For a list of species in Extriplex, use the above link.) Jepson Manual glossary definitions can be seen by moving your cursor over words underlined with dots. 1. Perennial herb; stems spreading  Oriented more or less perpendicularly to the axis of attachment; often, more or less horizontal. to decumbent  lying mostly flat on the ground but with tips curving up. ; 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). blade  Expanded portion of a leaf, petal, or other structure, generally flat but sometimes rolled, cylindric, wavy, or cupped. lanceolate  Narrowly elongate, widest in the basal half, often tapered to an acute tip. to elliptic  In the shape of a flattened circle or ellipse; wider than linear ; fruit bracts 3–4.5 mm, ± free, ovate  Egg-shaped (i.e., widest below the middle) in two dimensions (i.e., in one plane), as a leaf. to ± round, smooth ..... E. californica 1' Annual; stems ascending  Curving or angling upward from base, or about 30-60 degrees less than vertical or away from axis of attachment. to ± erect  Upright; vertically oriented. ; leaf blade ovate to deltate  More or less equilaterally triangular, with the corners rounded or not. ; fruit bracts 2–4 mm, free to fused proximally, narrowly elliptic to deltate, ribbed ..... E. joaquinana
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