many spines (modified leaves of the shoot); spines are absent in some taxa, populations, and environments. A vernacular term for areoles is “spine-clusters
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Inflorescence leaves or bracts tipped with spine or spinelike bristle > 7 6 Inflorescence leaves and bracts not tipped with spine or bristle > 9 7 Leaves triquetrous
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and glandular (glands sometimes elaborate, apices sometimes gland or spine-tipped). Heads usually radiate, rarely discoid, usually in corymbiform, glomerulate
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usually spine-tipped, sometimes apiculate). Involucres ± obconic or urceolate, 3–8+ mm diam. (subtended by calyculi of 5–12+ usually spine-tipped bractlets)
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and middle with bases appressed and apices spreading to erect, usually spine-tipped, innermost usually with erect, flat, often twisted, entire or dentate
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distally, connate proximally, leaflike, semileaflike, or scalelike, not awn-tipped, glabrous or variously pubescent or glandular. Peduncles absent or erect
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or -lobed, spine-tipped) Carthamus 21 Leaf margins not spiny (plants not thistlelike; phyllary apices sometimes apiculate, not spine-tipped) > 22 22 Receptacles
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spreading, usually ± dentate or fringed, linear to ovate appendages, spine-tipped or spineless. Receptacles flat, epaleate, bristly. Florets 10–many; outer
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or succulent), bases ± cuneate, margins entire or toothed (teeth often spine-tipped), faces glabrous or puberulent to villous and/or sericeous. Heads radiate
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in 2 narrow, glaucous, whitish or brownish bands; apex sharp-pointed, spine-tipped, sharp to touch; resin canal central. Pollen cones ovoid or oblong, with
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linear, margins entire or irregularly serrate to dentate (teeth usually spine-tipped), faces glabrous, canescent, or puberulent, often sparsely stipitate-glandular
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numerous, whorled, distinct, leaflike to subulate or linear, occasionally awn-tipped, thinly pubescent (sometimes appressed), hirsute, villous, strigose, or
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shoots. Leaves alternate, sometimes leaves of elongate shoots reduced to spines and foliage leaves borne only on short-shoots; foliage leaves simple or
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entire, toothed, or lobed, apices obtuse or acute, appendaged or not, not spine-tipped. Receptacles flat or convex, epaleate, smooth, usually subulate-scaly
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appressed, margins entire, apices ascending to spreading or reflexed, acute, spine-tipped. Receptacles flat, epaleate, bearing setiform scales (“flattened bristles”)
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2–3-flowered with lateral flowers poorly developed); bracts ovatelanceolate, spine-tipped. Flowers bisexual, with 2 bracteoles; perianth segments persistent, 5
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3-angled (each angle ± winged, wings ± spine-tipped); inner ± compressed (adaxial angles ± winged, wings ± spine-tipped); ribs 0, faces glabrous (peric) arps
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