lax, spreading, creeping, trailing, floating, or submerged, young ones often 4-angled. Leaves deciduous, usually opposite, sometimes alternate, subalternate
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distal 1/4 (–3/4) of leaf axis, overlapping or not, narrowly oblanceolate, elliptic, or cuneate to obovate, margins flat to ± revolute, distal 1/4 to nearly
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foot, in reference to the shape of the leaf Treatment appears in FNA Volume 4. Mentioned on page 261, 265, 267, 268. Herbs, annual or perennial [rarely suffruticose
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toothed 1/4–3/4 or lobed to base, rarely entire, sparsely to densely hairy; terminal leaflets distinct or indistinct. Cauline leaves (0–) 1–2 (–4), not paired;
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leaflets (1–) 3–16 (–20) per side, separate to overlapping, divided ± 1/6–3/4+ to midrib into 3–30 (–60) teeth or lobes not restricted to apex. Inflorescences
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flowers solitary. Flowers: sepals (4–) 5, sometimes vestigial, connate basally, deltate (straight or inflexed in fruit); petals 4–5, connate for nearly their
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reduced to a rim (often with apical midvein extending to center); ovules (2–) 4–32 (–40 [–80]) per ovary; style distinct; stigma entire. Seeds biseriate, often
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glabrescent, sometimes persistently scabrous or glabrate. Inflorescences (1–) 4–15 (–20) -flowered, convex panicles; branches densely pubescent, sometimes
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triangular, 0.8–4 mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres 1 per node or (2–) 3–15 per cluster, turbinate to turbinate-campanulate, (2–) 3.5–5 (–8) × 2–4 mm, tomentose
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± coriaceous to ± thin, lobes 0 or 1–4 per side, obscure to evident and sinuses shallow to deep, veins (3 or) 4–9 (–12) per side, absent to sinuses. Inflorescences:
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present; blade elliptic to linear, orbiculate, lanceolate, or ovate, [0.3–] 0.4–15 (–21) cm, leathery to membranous, margins flat or revolute, entire, venation
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turbinate-campanulate, 1.5–4 (–5) × (1–) 1.5–3 (–3.5) mm, tomentose to floccose or glabrous; teeth 5, erect to spreading, 0.3–1 mm. Flowers (1–) 2–4 mm; perianth various
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margins flat to revolute, distal 1/4–3/4+ evenly to unevenly incised 1/4–1/2 to midvein, sometimes 3–5-lobed 1/2–3/4 to midvein as well, primary teeth (1–)
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strongly flexuous, 3–10 dm. Leaves: basal withering, 1–2 dm; blade linear. Inflorescences subumbellate, 1–6-flowered; bracts 4–8 cm, bases dilated. Flowers
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campanulate to obconic or hemispheric, 3–8 (–11+) mm diam. Phyllaries 18–70+ in 4–7+ series, the outer ovate to lanceolate or subulate, inner ± lanceolate to
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Atlantic Islands (Cape Verde), Pacific Islands Genera 20, species ca. 350 (4 genera, 94 species in the flora). Loasaceae are in Cornales and are the sister
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tepals connate proximal 1/4–1/3, essentially monomorphic, oblanceolate to spatulate; stamens included to slightly exserted, 1–4 (–5) mm; filaments typically
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ascending, erect, or drooping, sometimes spreading or nodding, 1–4-flowered clusters or 4–17-flowered racemes (panicles); bracts absent; bracteoles sometimes
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lavender, (well-developed or reduced to bristles), 4.6–9.7 × 1.5–3 mm, claw not distinct. Fruits (4-angled or 8-ribbed), cylindrical, 12–29 × 3–9 mm; proximal
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Sisymbriodendron (Christ) O. E. Schulz in the Canary Islands. Bot. Macar. 4: 31–53. Detling, L. E. 1939. A revision of the North American species of Descurainia
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