stamens (5 or)10 or 20; larger bracteoles narrow to linear, subherbaceous, margins sessile-glandular (ser. Molles), or larger bracteoles oblong to curved
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Shrubs or trees, usually main trunk dominant, 3–120 dm. Stems usually 1 in larger plants, more in smaller plants, outer spreading; bark usually checked into
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the basal portion and then with elongate-rhomboid cells basally, usually larger than the cauline leaves, long-oval to longlanceolate. Sporophytes often
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petioles gradually to abruptly shorter on distal leaves; basal leaves usually larger than cauline; cauline leaves alternate. Leaf-blade deeply palmately divided
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2 or occasionally with 3–6 adaxial cells near base, usually not markedly larger than abaxial cells, often excurrent as a long awn, awn smooth to toothed
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rarely dendroid; rhizoids brown or reddish-brown, of two types, macronemata larger and usually strongly branched, mainly proximal, often matted, mainly restricted
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cells rhomboidal, large; basal-cells oblong; distal cells oblong or oblong-hexagonal. Perichaetia with leaves similar, often larger. Seta erect, usually
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perianth and unequal, imbricate in bud [convolute], lowermost petal often larger with gibbous or elongated spur; stamens 5, alternate with petals, surrounding
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sampled to assess variation in veination, shape, and size. Dimensions of the larger perigynia and achenes should be used in keying. Inflorescence characters
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abaxial surface occasionally toothed; alar cells usually differentiated, larger or smaller than basal laminal cells, region more pellucid or more opaque
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100–300 cm; leaf blades (at least larger) 10–40 cm wide, abaxial faces gland-dotted; phyllaries ovate to lance-ovate (larger usually 5–8 mm wide), apices narrowed
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reminiscent of a dense clump of grass. Nomenclature used here, and to a very large degree the taxonomy, follows Elbert L.Little Jr. (1971), former Chief Dendrologist
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subherbaceous, margins sessile-glandular, sometimes stipitate-glandular larger bracteoles. Flowers (8–) 12–20 mm diam.; hypanthium obconic, densely pubescent
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male plants, budlike, large; perichaetia terminal, further branching occurring by innovations, perichaetial leaves sometimes larger than stem-leaves. Seta
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paleae). Ray-florets 0 (corollas of peripheral florets sometimes notably larger than those of the inner, then zygomorphic, showy, and somewhat raylike,
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hybridization. Distinction and level of recognition of hybrid apomictic taxa have a large arbitrary component, in part because some apomicts appear to be ephemeral
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dimorphic, then round or oblong to lanceolate, arranged in 4 ranks, 2 ranks of larger spreading lateral leaves and 2 ranks of smaller, appressed, and ascending
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few branches, central strand present, basal rhizoids few. Leaves usually larger and more crowded distally, often comose, reduced proximally, usually contorted
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present composed of 1–3 enlarged, bulging, hyaline cells arranged linearly (larger, multicellular, protruding); epidermal and subepidermal cells small, incrassate
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gymnostomous, or peristomate; annulus, when present, usually of 2–3 rows of larger cells, deciduous; peristome, when present, single, of 16 teeth, variously
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