multiple-seeded); pyrenes 1–10, connate or not. Seeds 1–10, distinct or connate along radial faces of stony endocarp into 2s or 3s, sometimes connate into
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hemispheric, obconic, or turbinate, (4–19+ ×) 2–18 mm. Phyllaries 8–60 in 2–7 series (often in vertical ranks), 1-nerved (midnerves obscure or evident
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proximal 1/5–1/3 indehiscent, rarely completely, connective splitting or not, sides glabrous, papillate, or hairy, sutures denticulate, teeth to 0.1–0.2 mm,
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winged; pollen (3 or) 4–11-colpate. Fruits silicles or siliques, dehiscent, unsegmented, terete, latiseptate, or angustiseptate; ovules 2–100 per ovary;
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veins. Inflorescences spikes, usually exserted, with 1-3 (5) spikelets per node, internodes (1.5) 2-26 mm; rachises with scabridulous, scabrous, or ciliate
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then typically furcate or bifurcate, often imperfectly so (2 + 1 branches, rather than 2 + 2). Trichome rays are usually appressed or parallel to surfaces
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at anthesis, usually distinct or slightly connate basally, [connate for 1/3–2/3 their lengths], yellow, white, pink, purple, or reddish, sometimes red-lineolate
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with 1 sessile and 2 pedicellate spikelets, terminal spikelet units on the branches often with 2 pedicellate spikelets even if the others have only 1 (all
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pollen 3-colpate. Fruits usually siliques, rarely silicles, usually dehiscent, unsegmented, usually terete, 4-angled, or latiseptate; ovules 1–210 [–numerous]
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Phyllaries persistent or falling, 1–75+ in 1 (–2) series or 0 (the “involucre” then interpreted as constituted of 1 series of receptacular paleae; phyllaries
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persistent. Seeds (1–) 2–60+, ovoid, oblong, bottle-shaped, pyriform, irregularly polygonal, or trigonal prisms, dorsiventrally flattened or not, 0.5–4.5 mm, winged
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versatile, dehiscence longitudinal; ovary superior or inferior, 3-locular or occasionally 1-locular, 3-angled, ovoid, or cylindrical, with axillary or rarely parietal
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annular, 5 glands, or absent; pistil (1–) 3-carpellate; styles (1–) 3, distinct or connate basally, unbranched, 2-fid, or multifid. Fruits usually capsules
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callus, solitary or paired (1 spikelet of the pair reduced in some species), in 2 rows along 1 side of the branches, with 2 florets, first rachilla segment
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Gen. Pl. 1 : 804. 1867. John J. Schenk, Larry Hufford Common names: Western star Basionym: Mentzelia Bartonia Torrey & A. Gray Fl. N. Amer. 1: 534. 1840
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Involucres 1–6+ per node, 3–6-ribbed, tubular, cylindric to urceolate or turbinate to campanulate; teeth 3, 5, or 6, awn-tipped. Flowers bisexual, 1 (–2) per
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interlocking, densely or sparsely covered in simple hairs; nuts 1-3 per cupule, planoconvex, or if 3, then central nut often reduced and flattened, or if solitary
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abaxial lobes 3, adaxial 2; stamens 4, adnate proximal to middle of corolla, didynamous, filaments glabrous or hairy, staminode 0; ovary 2-locular, placentation
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pistil 1; ovary 1-carpellate (except 2 in Oxystylis), 2-locular; placentation parietal; ovules 1–18 (–26+) per locule, anatropous, bitegmic; style 1 (straight
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reduced; pistil 1, 2 (–3) -carpellate; ovary inferior, usually 2-locular proximally, 1-locular distally; placentation axile; ovules 1–2 per locule, pendulous;
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