flattened to nearly terete, margins smooth to variously papillate or scabrous. Inflorescences: scapes variously elongate; spike bracts imbricate, the proximal
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lustrous or variously ridged, pitted, alveolate (honeycombed), cancellate (netted, latticed), papillate, or warty; tubercle mostly conic or variously triangular
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leaves), dotted with linear or rounded marks formed by cystoliths (variously shaped calcium carbonate crystals inside epidermal-cells). Inflorescences
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scapose, glabrous or variously pubescent with simple or compound hairs. Rootstocks rhizomes or stems, thickened, short to variously elongate; roots fibrous
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Flowering-stems aerial (or subterranean in Romulea), simple or branched, terete or variously compressed, angled or winged. Leaves basal and cauline, distichous; proximal
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are usually V- or M-shaped in cross section. The V-shaped leaves are keeled with a midvein prominent on the abaxial surface and M-shaped leaves have a midvein
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with stiff, coarse marginal hairs adjacent to the ligules, glabrous or variously pubescent elsewhere. Inflorescences terminal, sometimes also axillary,
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reniform to globose, thick-walled with hundreds of spores, outer walls variously modified. Spores all 1 kind, trilete, thick-walled, surfaces pitted to
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1–2 times number of carpels. Fruits usually schizocarps with 5–many wedge-shaped mericarps or folliclelike segments, or capsules with 3–5 cells, rarely berries
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thin-walled. Leaves somewhat crowded, spreading when wet, incurved and variously twisted or contorted when dry; costate; apex broadly acute to rounded,
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early or variously persistent, pendent to ± erect, at maturity conic or cylindric, sessile or stalked, shedding seed soon after maturity or variously serotinous
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Distorted Greek kodon, bell, and phoras, bearing, alluding to capsules with bell-shaped calyptrae Synonyms: Racomitrium subg. Cataractarum Vilhelm Treatment appears
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involute, seldom plane; distal laminal cells KOH yellow to red; costa variously with or without differentiated abaxial epidermis; gemmae absent to common
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hairy and minutely glandular; orifice with thickened, revolute rim; hoods variously arranged in association with orifices. Phyllodia present or absent. Scapes
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prominent lateral nerves (3-nerved). Heads in variously thyrsiform-paniculiform, open to usually congested, cone-shaped, ± secund (to reflexed in S. nemoralis)
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lanceolate to linear, plane or margins and/or midribs variously raised and thickened (then H or X-shaped in cross-section), or evidently terete, midribs and
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nodes, sometimes armed with prickles on internodes. Leaves: sheaths variously shaped, margins usually toothed with 1–15 teeth per side, teeth similar in
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midvein, other intercostal depressions shallow, indistinct, apices often prow-shaped. Inflorescences usually terminal panicles, rarely reduced and racemelike
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micronemata present. Leaves green or yellow-green, rarely black with age, variously crisped or contorted when dry, erect-spreading, usually flat, occasionally
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subtending pedicels persistent. Flowers: free portion of hypanthium saucer-shaped, cupshaped, campanulate, or tubular; sepals greenish, white, yellow, pink
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