ovules 2–90. Fruits berries, red, purple, purple-black, yellow, or reddish, globose, ellipsoid, or subglobose, usually excavated apically; calyx lobes persistent
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appears in FNA Volume 23. Plants usually densely cespitose, short to long rhizomatous. Culms solitary or not, brown or purple at base. Leaves: basal sheaths
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Stems: compound thorns on trunks present; twigs: new growth reddish-brown, 1-year old dull purple-brown, 2-years old dull gray, older paler; thorns on twigs
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decussately branched. Bark tight or exfoliating in grayish, brown, or reddish-brown sheets. Branches erect, ascending, or spreading, often arching; twigs
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spiny-toothed, teeth 1–1.5 cm apart. Inflorescences terminal, usually unbranched, racemose, 10–15 dm, usually covered with scalelike bracts; racemes cylindrical,
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setaceous. Flowers urceolate to campanulate, 6–12 mm; tepals erect, dark reddish purple to pale lavender, or white, lanceolate to ovate, ± equal, becoming ±
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green, brownish green, light green, or yellow-green, often tinged reddish-brown or purple. Stems (0.2–) 1–3 (–4) cm, often branched; rhizoids at base, papillose
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stipitate-glandular; bracts 1–7+, usually linear-oblanceolate, rarely leaflike and linear-oblanceolate, usually greatly reduced, margins usually flat, rarely remotely
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glabrous or ± tomentose or villous, often unevenly glabrescent). Stems usually 1, usually erect. Leaves basal and cauline; alternate; petiolate or sessile;
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petiole usually slender; blade oblanceolate to spatulate, base usually not decurrent onto stem, narrowing abruptly to petiole, margins usually entire,
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5–4 cm; bracts proximally greenish to deep purple, distally white, or pink to pink-purple or reddish purple on apices, if white sometimes aging pink, lanceolate
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corolla urceolate; stamens 10, included; filaments dilated, (usually hairy at base); anthers (reddish), with 2 (recurved), dorsal awns, dehiscent by 2 terminal
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puberulent, or glabrous; corolla white to lilac, lavender, blue, violet, purple, red, pink, or magenta, bilaterally symmetric, rarely nearly radially symmetric
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Plants densely or loosely cespitose, short-rhizomatous. Culms brown or purple at base. Leaves: basal sheaths not fibrous; sheath fronts membranous; blades
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5–400 cm; taproots. Stems usually 1, thinly to densely gray or white-tomentose, sometimes ± glabrate; branches few–many, usually from above mid or near base
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Stems 1–15 (usually from basal rosettes), usually erect, sometimes ± prostrate, usually branched (scapiform in M. californica), usually glabrous (sometimes
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hairy or glabrous; flesh usually with sclereids; hypanthium persistent; sepals usually persistent, rarely deciduous, usually incurved, fleshy; carpels
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FNA Volume 23. Plants colonial, rarely cespitose, usually long-rhizomatous. Culms usually red-purple at base, sometimes only red tinged. Leaves: basal
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erect, glabrous or glandular-pubescent in inflorescence. Leaves cauline, usually whorled proximally, alternate distally; petiole absent; blade sometimes
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Spines 6–32 per areole, yellow, brown, or reddish to salmon with color hidden by very thin, light gray layer, usually large and coarse, annulate-ridged (smooth
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