1	"Leaves usually well over 3 cm long, with shallowly toothed margins"	"Crabbea velutina"
1	"Leaves up to 3 cm long, with entire margins"	2
2	"Bracts with entire margins, tomentose; ovaries with 4 ovules each"	"Crabbea migiurtina"
2	"At least some bracts with spiny margins or pinnately divided into filiform lobes, puberulent or shortly pubescent; varies with 2 ovules each"	3
3	"Bracteate heads with few to severl flowers on (5-)10-70 mm long peduncles; corollas pink to pale liac or dark red"	"Crabbea thymifolia"
3	"Bracteate heads with 1 flower on peduncles 0-4 mm long; corollas with white limbs and purple ot yellow throats"	4
4	"Corollas 3-3.5 cm long, with purple throats; inner bracts with a linear rachis up to 0.8 mm wide and filiform lobes"	"Crabbea pinnatifida"
4	"Corollas about 1.7 cm long, with yellow throats; inner bracts with blades 2-5 mm wide having ciliform, bristelike spines"	"Crabbea albolutea"