Innovations mostly intravaginal. Blades usually more or less stiff, conduplicate, sometimes convolute or flat; ribs usually distinct; sclerenchyma girders
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foliaceous). Receptacles ± convex, paleate (paleae falling with cypselae, conduplicate, scarious or chartaceous). Ray-florets 8–21, neuter; corollas ± yellow
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absent; petiole with pulvinus basally or distally; leaflets 3 or 5, (conduplicate and flat). Inflorescences terminal or axillary (from distal leaves),
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falling with cypselae, mostly oblong to lanceolate or linear, flat to conduplicate, herbaceous or scarious, often 2-lobed or 3-lobed or toothed). Ray-florets
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ovatelanceolate, lanceolate, narrowly lanceolate, or linear, keeled, conduplicate, concave, or plane; margins sometimes broadly reflexed proximally, plane
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shredding into fibers; collars glabrous; ligules 0.1-0.5 mm; blades usually conduplicate or convolute and 0.3-2.5 mm in diameter, sometimes flat and 1.5-7 mm
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Receptacles conic; paleate (paleae tan to brown, ovate to oblong-rectangular, conduplicate). Ray-florets 5–15, neuter; corollas yellow (laminae elliptic, oblong
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unequal, outer shorter). Receptacles flat or convex, paleate (paleae ± conduplicate, folded around and falling with cypselae). Ray-florets 0 or 8–25 (–40)
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Receptacles flat to convex or ± conic, paleate (paleae usually navicular, ± conduplicate, herbaceous to scarious, linear to filiform in V. encelioides and V.
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strictly basal or gradually reduced to bracts toward inflorescence, conduplicate, ascending to spreading, bases sheathing stem. Inflorescences solitary
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surpassing inner). Receptacles flat to convex, paleate (paleae persistent, conduplicate, at least at bases, chartaceous). Ray-florets 5–21+, pistillate, fertile;
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toward inflorescence. Leaves several, alternate, ascending to spreading, conduplicate, bases sheathing stem. Inflorescences terminal, lax to rather dense spicate
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often surpassing inner). Receptacles flat to convex, paleate (paleae conduplicate, papery). Ray-florets (8–) 10–18 (–21), pistillate, fertile; corollas
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rhizome, slender, fleshy. Stems scapose. Leaves solitary, basal, spreading, conduplicate; petioles inconspicuous, sheathing or clasping stem; blade orbiculate
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pseudobulbs, green, ovoid. Leaves persistent, 1–3, not recurved; blade conduplicate, linearlanceolate, dorsiventrally flattened, margins entire. Inflorescences
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proximally, crowded distally, oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, keeled, conduplicate; margins sometimes narrowly reflexed, entire or serrulate proximally
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often shed as a unit), paleate (paleae lanceolate to linear, scarious, conduplicate, often with dilated, erose tips). Ray-florets [3–] 5–13+, pistillate
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unequal, outer longer). Receptacles subspheric to columnar, paleate (paleae conduplicate, linear to oblong-oblique, chartaceous proximally, herbaceous distally
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persistent, 30–65+ in 3–6 series. Receptacles convex, paleate (paleae ± conduplicate, folded around and falling with cypselae). Ray-florets (11–) 20–35+,
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Leaves 2 or 3–7, basal, sheathing pseudobulb and proximal part of stem, conduplicate or plicate, glabrous. Inflorescences terminal, 3–40-flowered racemes
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