Calyculi of 3–8+ distinct, usually spreading or reflexed, usually linear to subulate, herbaceous bractlets. Involucres hemispheric to urceolate, 4–15+ mm diam
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pappi 0 or persistent, of smooth or barbellulate to plumose bristles or subulate to setiform and plumose scales. North America, mostly South America, Asia
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narrowly oblong to oblong-triangular, apex acute or bluntly pointed, adaxial lip erect or reflexed distally, 3–5 mm, lobes triangular, apex acute; filaments
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(especially near nodes). Leaves: stipules absent (var. spinescens) or triangular to subulate, fused basal portion usually thickened, darkened, glandular, free
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flowering, petiolate, subpetiolate, or sessile, blades narrowly lanceolate or subulate, 20–100 (–200) × 1.5–10 (–20) mm, bases attenuate, margins subentire, entire
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apart, rarely absent; apical spine light gray to ivory white, acicular or subulate, 2–20 cm. Scape 1.7–5 m. Inflorescences spicate, racemose or narrowly paniculate
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scapose; flowers opening nearly simultaneously to sequentially; floral bracts subulate, lanceolate, or ovate, typically small. Flowers not resupinate, magenta
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or sessile; blade 1–3-veined, sometimes obscurely so, filiform-linear to subulate, lanceolate or oblanceolate, rarely to ovate, herbaceous to succulent,
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and fringed, not spine-tipped. Receptacles turbinate, bearing elongate subulate scales. Florets 1 per primary head; corollas white to greenish, blue-gray
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present, subulate, 1/3–1/2 distance between base of inflorescence and proximal flowers. Pedicels to 1 mm; bracteoles 3, persistent, subulate. Flowers:
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campanulate to funnelform, tube 2.5–3.2 mm, glabrous, lobes subulate to triangular-subulate, 0.1–1 mm; corolla pink to dark-pink, with 2 yellow lines and
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Association Stems 3–18 cm. Leaves: basal leaves absent; cauline leaves subulate to lanceolate, 1–4 × 0.2–1 mm. Inflorescences loosely 2–12–flowered cymes
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shallowly campanulate; sepals 5, ovate to deltate or subulate, linear, linear-triangular, or narrowly triangular; petals 5, connate 1/4–1/2 length, white to greenish
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filaments adnate to perianth-tube, linear, base sometimes dilated to form triangular flap, or sometimes with abaxial wings or appendages; anthers basifixed
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(drying) persistent, (4–) 5, distinct or slightly connate, narrowly triangular to subulate or nearly acicular; petals (4–) 5, (imbricate), connate for 3/4+
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well defined, 3–7 (–8) mm, 1–3 cm apart; apical spine dark-brown to gray, subulate or acicular, 1.5–4 cm. Scape (2–) 3–6 m. Inflorescences broadly paniculate
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not viscid. Stems erect [or procumbent]. Leaves: stipules persistent, subulate or linear to falcate; blade ovate, unlobed, shallowly lobed, or deeply
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often proliferating; peduncles terete, 35–56 cm; rachis triangular; bracts distinct, subulate, 10–21 mm, coarse, margins coarse; pedicels erect to ascending
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contorted or spiraled when dry, spreading when moist; long-ligulate, oblong or triangular to longlanceolate, 1.5–2.5 (–4) mm; adaxial surface broadly channeled
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stipules usually persistent, filiform, subulate, or minute; blade broadly ovate to ovate-triangular [narrowly triangular], unlobed, base cordate, margins entire
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