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Key to Zanthoxylum

Rutaceae

Zanthoxylum

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(c) Bradley, Keith
1 Flowers 3-merous, with 3 sepals and 3 petals; carpels 3; leaves even-pinnate or odd-pinnate, with (4-) 6-8 (-10) leaflets; [of s. FL]; [section Tobinia]
(c) Ward, Scott G
1 Flowers 4-6-merous, either with 4-5 sepals + 4-5 petals, or with 4-8 undifferentiated tepals; carpels 1-4 (-5); leaves odd-pinnate, with (3-) 5-13 leaflets; [collectively widespread in our area].
(c) Bradley, Keith
(c) 葉子 - CC0
  2 Petioles and rachises winged; leaflets 0.5-7 (-8) cm long.
(c) Bradley, Keith
    3 Leaflets 1-3 (-8) cm long, 0.3-0.7 (-1.8) cm wide, rounded and usually retuse at the apex; [of peninsular FL and se. and s. TX southwards]; [section Pterota]
(c) Conboy, Andrew - CC-BY
    3 Leaflets 2.5-5 (-7) cm long, 1.5-4 cm wide, acuminate to obtuse at the apex; [planted horticulturally, and sometimes persistent or weakly spreading]; [section Sinensis]
(c) Cressler, Alan M.
  2 Petioles and rachises not winged; leaflets 4-10 cm long.
(c) Bachman, Steven - CC-BY
      4 Twigs, leaves, and inflorescences stellate-canescent; plants without prickles; [of s. FL]; [section Macqueria; Zanthoxylum rhoifolium group]
(c) Fleming, Gary P.
(c) Bradley, Keith
      4 Twigs, leaves, and inflorescences hirtellous, puberulent, or glabrous, the hairs simple; twigs and leaves generally bearing prickles; [collectively widespread in our area].
(c) Fleming, Gary P.
        5 Leaves thin in texture, pubescent; leaflets 5-9 per leaf; flowers and fruits borne in small axillary clusters or fascicles; carpels (1) 2-4 (-5); [mainly in inland physiographic provinces, but also rare and scattered in the Coastal Plain]; [section Zanthoxylum]
(c) Fleming, Gary P.
        5 Leaves coriaceous in texture, glabrous (or glabrate) and waxy, the lateral leaflets oblique at the base (asymmetrical across the midvein); leaflets (5-) 11-15 (-19) per leaf; flowers and fruits borne in large terminal and subterminal panicles or corymbs; carpels 1-2; [mainly Coastal Plain, but extending northwards into inland provinces in n. AL, AR, OK, and TX]; [section Macqueria; Zanthoxylum clava-herculis group].
(c) Fleming, Gary P.
(c) sarah1862 - CC-BY
          6 Leaflets (4-) 5-10 (-13) cm long, 1.5-3 (-4) cm wide; inflorescences 4-20 cm long, with 2-5 orders of branching; shrub to tree
(c) Wong, Michelle - CC-BY
          6 Leaflets (1.5-) 2-4 (-5) cm long, 1-2 (-2.3 cm wide; inflorescences 2.5-7 cm long, with 1-2 orders of branching;