all diverging at nearly same angle. Inflorescences fascicles or flowers solitary. Pedicels 1–4 mm. Sepals 4. Petals 4. Drupes black, globose or slightly
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along veins, elliptic to ovate, broadly ovate, rectangular, obovate, or nearly orbiculate, 3–11 × 2.5–8 cm, base cuneate to broadly cuneate or, sometimes
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entire or nearly so. Sexual condition synoicous. Capsule dehiscing by a ring of differentiated cells at or distal to the equator, redbrown or red-black, globose
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Leaf-blade ovate, sometimes 3-5-lobed, 2-7 (-9) × 1-4 (-7) cm, base rounded to nearly cordate, margins serrate or crenate-serrate, apex acute to acuminate; surfaces
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similar length; terminal spike gynecandrous. Pistillate scales dark-brown or black to margins, ovate or broadly lanceolate, shorter than and as broad as perigynia
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5–10 mm diam.; scales bicolored, linear-subulate, 0.1–0.3 mm wide, centers black, thick, margins brown, thin, erose-dentate. Leaves somewhat dimorphic, sterile
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opening, lanceovoid to ovoid or cylindric when open, 6–11cm, purple to brown, nearly sessile; apophyses much thickened; umbo central, with triangular base, extended
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distinct, flattened, (0.5–) 1–3.5 cm; blade rhombic or fan-shaped, sometimes nearly round, (1–) 1.5–3.5 cm, ± fleshy, base attenuate to ± cuneate, margins 7–11-toothed
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subglobose, 3–4 mm diam.; bracts absent. Flowers: perianth segments 5, distinct nearly to base; lobes ovate, ca. 1 × 1.1 mm, apex obtuse, keeled, farinose, largely
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Patricia M. Eckel Copyright: Flora of North America Association Plants brown to black. Leaves erect, curved or secund, becoming subulate from an ovate or narrow-rectangular
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cm × 1.5–3 mm; ovules 10–38 per ovary; style 0.2–0.6 mm. Seeds (sometimes black), oblong, 2.5–4.5 × 1.2–2 mm. Generated Map Legacy Map Ariz., Calif., Colo
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coherent). Cypselae (black) ± fusiform, enclosed in obovoid to ellipsoid, hard, prickly, 2-chambered burs; pappi 0. x = 18. New World, nearly worldwide Species
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Disc-florets 60+; corollas 5–7 mm, lobes yellow; anthers dark-brown to black, appendages yellow. Cypselae 3–5 mm, glabrate; pappi of 2 aristate scales
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pubescent, sessile-glandular; styles connate nearly to stigmas, 3 mm, very finely hairy. Berries sweet-tasting, black, globose, 12–15 mm, glabrous with some
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spreading, straight, longest spines (4–) 7–15 × 0.2–0.3 (–0.40) mm. Flowers nearly apical, 12 × 6.5–13 (–16) mm, sterile distal part of flower tube 0–2 mm
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blunt, glabrous or sparsely hairy; lemmas firmer than the glumes, folded to nearly terete, obscurely 5-veined, marginal veins not excurrent, apices entire
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dark metallic red, becoming reddish-brown, maroon-red, reddish black, or brownish black in older extremities. Stems to 6 cm, extremities usually denuded
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Leaf-blades narrowly lanceolate, linear-lanceolate, or linear, flat or nearly so, 2–5 (–7) × 0.2–0.6 cm. Inflorescences usually compact, rather dense
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cespitose; rhizomes short, tough, fibrous. Culms: fertile ones upright or nearly so; nodes without axillary bulblets. Leaves 6–11 per culm; sheaths of proximal
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yellowish white, dibrachiate. Young stems narrowly 2-winged; bark pale gray or nearly white, smooth or, ultimately, scaly. Leaves: petiole 4–8 mm, channeled,
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