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Key to Chamaesaracha

Solanaceae

Chamaesaracha

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1 Leaves 4-10× as long as wide, glabrous or sparsely pubescent with short, white stellate hairs
1 Leaves 2-3× as long as wide, glabrous or densely pubescent, hairs various.
  2 Leaves glabrous or nearly so; [mainly Edwards Plateau of c. TX]
  2 Leaves variously pubescent; [more widespread in TX and OK and northwestwards, westwards, and southwards]
    3 Leaf blades pubescent with 2-many-branched, dendritic to stellate hairs; [nc. TX and sw. OK].
    3 Leaf blades pubescent with simple or 1-branched hairs, glandular hairs, or a mix of the two[collectively of nc. TX, c. TX, and s. TX northwestwards, westwards, and southwards].
      4 Mid-stem herbage densely pubescent with mix of glandular and eglandular hairs; leaf margins irregularly to deeply pinnately lobed, occasionally few-lobed