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- John Myers Copyright: Flora of North America Association Plants on rock, occasionally terrestrial or epiphytic. Stems creeping, usually branched, 3–15 mm diam13 KB (793 words) - 00:23, 30 July 2020
- or adnate to petiole; blade flat, terete, or triquetrous (3-angled), occasionally scalelike. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, flowers solitary or in17 KB (1,102 words) - 09:13, 30 July 2020
- mats, green, brown, yellowish, olive green, less often blackish brown or occasionally jet-black. Stems erect, decumbent or creeping, much dichotomously to13 KB (864 words) - 06:51, 30 July 2020
- at first, pubescence not recorded, 1-year old dull redbrown, marked by occasional large, oblong lenticels, 2-years old light gray-brown; thorns on twigs8 KB (824 words) - 14:42, 30 July 2020
- tips), glabrous; spines at nodes (1–) 3, 4–11 mm; prickles on internodes occasional. Leaves: petiole 1–2.5 cm, pilose and with long-stalked glands, proximal9 KB (485 words) - 13:13, 30 July 2020
- nonlustrous, thin, with occasional glands, lacking cilia, with 1–2-celled translucent projections on teeth. Vein tips occasionally enlarged to form whitish7 KB (600 words) - 00:25, 30 July 2020
- granulose-papillose papillose. Phenology: Capsules mature spring–summer. Habitat: Soil, occasional saline soil, clay Elevation: moderate to high elevations (500-3900 m)6 KB (914 words) - 07:09, 30 July 2020
- papillae 1 or 2 per cell, conic, small. Specialized asexual reproduction occasional, by gemmae on leaves. Sexual condition autoicous. Vaginula with hairs9 KB (676 words) - 07:53, 30 July 2020
- glabrous. Pinnules entire or broadly crenate; margins nonlustrous, thin, with occasional isolated cilia, lacking translucent projections. Vein tips often enlarged7 KB (553 words) - 15:29, 15 December 2020
- perigynous; hypanthium cup or disc-shaped; sepals (4–) 5, distinct, green, occasionally purple-tinged (S. irrigua) or red proximally (S. pallida), lanceolate21 KB (985 words) - 10:17, 30 July 2020
- Leaves usually spirally arranged, forming water-impounding rosette, occasionally lax and/or 2-ranked, simple, margins serrate or entire, trichomes nearly7 KB (354 words) - 00:55, 30 July 2020
- green, usually hidden but occasionally exposed and forming visible green star at adaxial base of perianth; sepals 3, occasionally ridged abaxially, 3.1–1237 KB (2,628 words) - 05:42, 30 July 2020
- excurrent as an apiculus, mucro or short awn, occasionally only percurrent, adaxial outgrowths occasionally present as a pad of enlarged parenchymatous cells13 KB (810 words) - 07:12, 30 July 2020
- usually borne in alternating cycles; hardened scales and phyllopodia occasionally surrounding leaves. Sporangia solitary, adaxial, embedded in basal cavity6 KB (283 words) - 00:35, 30 July 2020
- perennial, deciduous, synoecious [dioecious]; hairs unbranched or 2-armed (occasionally 1 arm absent). Leaves usually opposite, sometimes alternate, simple;7 KB (271 words) - 18:23, 29 July 2020
- patch, sometimes proximal 2/3 white-indurate (apices occasionally squarrose, obtuse or acute, occasionally mucronate), faces glabrous or densely villous to15 KB (811 words) - 22:27, 29 July 2020
- except Chaenactis macrantha, C. cusickii, and C. nevii appear to form occasional natural hybrids where sympatric. Chaenactis macrantha and C. cusickii10 KB (816 words) - 22:32, 29 July 2020
- acuminate; costa not reaching apex to long-excurrent, awn present, apiculus occasionally present, guide cells usually in 1 layer; alar cells quadrate; laminal12 KB (668 words) - 07:35, 30 July 2020
- glands that senesce into white flakes. Leaves simple, usually alternate, occasionally opposite, lacking stipules, petiolate or sessile, sometimes reduced to21 KB (878 words) - 09:28, 30 July 2020
- differentiated to ovate or rectangular, occasionally half-sheathing; distal margins usually sharply incurved, occasionally merely erect, seldom plane, entire;18 KB (1,487 words) - 07:02, 30 July 2020