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|accepted_name=Rupertia
|accepted_authority=J. W. Grimes
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Mem. New York Bot. Gard.
|place=61: 52, fig. 6. 1990
|year=1990
}}
|common_names=California tea;scurfpea
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Fabaceae;Fabaceae subfam. Faboideae;Rupertia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Fabaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Fabaceae subfam. Faboideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Rupertia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Rupert Charles Barneby, 1911–2000, American legume taxonomist
|volume=Volume 11
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, unarmed; from diffuse, woody, branched root system, sometimes stoloniferous. <b>Stems</b> erect, ± glandular, glabrate; unbranched or sparsely branched; proximal nodes often with cataphylls. <b>Leaves</b> alternate, odd-pinnate; stipules present, deciduous or persistent, reflexed, distinct; petiolate; leaflets 3, very rarely 4, petiolulate, blade margins entire, surfaces glabrous or pubescent. <b>Inflorescences</b>: 2 or 3 flowers per node (3–20 nodes), axillary, pseudoracemes; bracts present, deciduous. <b>Pedicels</b> present. <b>Flowers</b> papilionaceous; calyx tubular-campanulate (in bud), gibbous to campanulate (in fruit, concealing fruit), lobes 5, lobes equal to or less than tube; corolla cream or yellow, sometimes with purple blotch on wing blades and keel petals; banner bi-auriculate, wings auriculate, keel always shorter, apical margins connate; stamens 10, monadelphous early with vexillary stamen becoming distinct; anthers in 2 series, proximal ones dorsifixed, distal basifixed, introrse; receptacle tumid, style reflexed. <b>Fruits</b> legumes, sessile, elliptic or compressed-obovate, indehiscent, sometimes secondarily dehiscent by transverse rupture, apiculate or with beak ventrally displaced at maturity, eglandular or sparsely glandular, pubescent. <b>Seeds</b> 1, round to reniform, smooth.</span><!--

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|distribution=w North America;nw Mexico.
|discussion=<p>Species 3 (3 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Segregated by Grimes from Hoita in the sense of P. A. Rydberg (1919–1920) for the absence of a secondary internal wall in the fruit, Rupertia is distinguished from other genera of Psoraleeae by a combination of characters, including an accrescent calyx, cream to light yellow petals, deciduous bracts, and a tumid receptacle. Delimitation of Rupertia from Hoita is further validated by a molecular phylogenetic study of Psoraleeae (A. N. Egan and K. A. Crandall 2008).</p>
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Stipules 13–15 mm, widely elliptic to obtriangular; floral bracts 9–13 mm.
|[[Rupertia hallii|Rupertia hallii]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Stipules 4–10 mm, linear-oblanceolate, linear-spatulate, triangular, or narrowly elliptic; floral bracts 3–7 mm.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Calyx in flower 6–8 mm; corolla banner 10–13.5 mm; legumes 4–7 mm, apiculate.
|[[Rupertia physodes|Rupertia physodes]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Calyx in flower 9–10 mm; corolla banner 14–15 mm; legumes 9–13 mm, beaked (beak broadly attached).
|[[Rupertia rigida|Rupertia rigida]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Rupertia
|author=Martin F. Wojciechowski
|authority=J. W. Grimes
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Fabaceae
|distribution=w North America;nw Mexico.
|reference=None
|publication title=Mem. New York Bot. Gard.
|publication year=1990
|special status=
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/master/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V11/V11_990.xml
|subfamily=Fabaceae subfam. Faboideae
|genus=Rupertia
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