callous. Inflorescences spikelike or umbellate. Flowers in glomerules. Seeds usually without tuft of hairs; caruncle conspicuous to barely visible. Temperate
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pollen-sacs usually maroon or yellow, sometimes yellowish and speckled maroon, rarely with reddish purple to purple speckles, connective usually maroon, sometimes
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slightly, dark reddish-brown, maroon, purple, or white, sometimes pale-yellow, major adaxial veins prominent and appearing somewhat engraved, usually flat, lanceolate
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distal parts, often becoming glabrescent at maturity. Stems usually erect, green or reddish purple, branched, mainly in inflorescences, to nearly simple proximally
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adaxially pink or purple, sometimes white; abaxial lip base white or pink to deep purple, expanded lip white with purple spots or purple proximally, white
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(–42) mm, mouth with wide purple band, usually shallowly U-shaped, greater than 2 mm wide. Lateral spikes pistillate, purple to dark-brown, pendent, (17–)
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Treatment on page 250. Plants annual; loosely tufted. Culms to 110 cm, usually erect, sometimes almost prostrate; nodes glabrous. Lower sheaths often completely
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present, sometimes difficult to observe, adnate portion dark reddish purple to nearly black, usually well developed, noticeably thickened, free portion relatively
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orm, paniculiform, or spiciform arrays. Peduncular bracts: tack-glands usually 1+ at tips and on margins. Involucres campanulate or obconic to ± globose
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differentiated from adaxial radial spines. Flowers orange-red or reddish to purplish or brownish purple, usually dark or dull. Fruits: pulp mealy (funicular cells remaining
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1, narrowly elongate-cylindric, (15–) 20–90 × 4–10 mm, usually bearing pink to brown or purple pyriform bulblets proximally and sterile flowers distally;
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base sometimes abruptly enlarged. Roots usually conspicuous (often forming a globular mass), very slender, usually branched. Leaves several to numerous,
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apetalous flowers), oblanceoloid; stamens (2–) 4 (–6) (staminate flowers usually with 3 stamens), exserted; anthers without awns, dehiscent from slits; ovary
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0–5-lobed. Inflorescences 2.5–16 (–20) cm; bracts distally pink to pink-purple or reddish purple on apices, sometimes white distally, if white sometimes aging pink
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apex acuminate. Flowers conic to campanulate, 9–15 mm; tepals erect, reddish purple or dingy white, lanceolate, ± equal, rigid and membranous in fruit,
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with reddish purple, sparsely ciliolate, green zones lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, apices acute to acuminate, mucronate to apiculate, often purple or
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corollas usually pale-purple or lilac, sometimes white, laminae 9.5–20 × 0.7–1.4 mm. Disc-florets 29–52; corollas yellow becoming reddish purple, 5–6 mm
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white to lavender, 2–4 mm, apex rounded, adaxial lavender to purple, 2–4 mm, apex acute, usually emarginate; ovule 1; style slightly exserted, glabrous; stigma
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flowering-stem; blade 1-veined or 3–5-veined, rarely linear or linear-lanceolate to usually elliptic to ovate or rarely orbiculate, sometimes subsucculent or succulent
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obliquely funnel-shaped to cylindric; stamens usually unilateral; anthers usually parallel; style usually arching over stamens, dividing into 3 filiform
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