8 Phyllary apices spine-tipped (spines white or clear) > 9 8 Phyllary apices (flat or involute or folded and green) not spine-tipped > 10 9 Involucres
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(sometimes interpreted as paleae) ± connate, usually with free tips forming tubercles, spines, or wings (the whole becoming a hard perigynium or “bur”); florets
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2, opposite, rarely in whorls of 3–5, connate, proximally leaflike, awn-tipped. Involucres urceolate, ventricose basally, 6-toothed, with broad, continuous
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appendages spreading, fringed with slender stramineous spines, each tipped by spreading to reflexed spine 1–3 mm. Inner phyllaries lanceolate, ± acute. Florets
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spatulate, 2–18 × 1–6 mm, herbaceous to leathery, apex mucronate to short-spine-tipped, moderately antrorsely pubescent. Inflorescences diffuse, flowers solitary
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cartilaginous-thickened secondary-veins obscure, apex acute or obtuse, spine-tipped; surfaces abaxially blue-green, glaucous, glabrous, microscopically markedly
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blade filiform to linear, 1–4.2 cm, somewhat fleshy, apex apiculate or spine-tipped; axillary leaves 2–4 per cluster. Cymes simple to 3-compound. Pedicels
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branched before passing into teeth, apex acute or obtuse, rarely rounded, spine-tipped; surfaces abaxially canescent, usually densely stellate-pubescent, and
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3–4-angled, slightly ventricose on the angles in some; teeth (2–) 3–4, awn-tipped. Flowers 1 (–2) per involucre; perianth white to pink, campanulate when
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several orders of branching, bearing bracts that are modified as scales and/or spines (see B. S. Fey and P. K. Endress 1983). None. Castanea, Chrysolepis, Fagus
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sometimes bristly; paleae often conspicuously exserted, apices ± attenuate, spine-tipped Centromadia pungens subsp. pungens
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or size","spine architecture","spine atypical length","spine duration","spine length","spine prominence","spine relief","spine shape","spine texture","spine
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cross-section, rigid, blue-green, bearing stomates on all surfaces, apex spine-tipped. Seed-cones (5–) 6–11 (–12) cm; scales elliptic to diamond-shaped, widest
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