glabrous or pubescent; areoles usually elliptic, circular, or obovate, 3–8 (–10) × 1–7 (–10) mm; wool white, gray, or tan to brown, aging white or gray to
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sparsely sessile-glandular; blade broadly elliptic to narrowly obovate, oblanceolate (broader in C. jonesiae), or rhombic-elliptic, 3–6 (–8) cm, ± thin, base
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(basal) or sessile; blades (usually appressed to strictly ascending) usually 1-nerved, linear to oblanceolate or spatulate, margins entire or remotely
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present; blade obovate to oblanceolate, rhombic, elliptic, or linear to lanceolate, ovate, or suborbiculate, 1–10 cm, membranous, chartaceous, or coriaceous
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notably nerved, ovate to elliptic or lanceolate, usually unequal (herbaceous to petaloid, margins often hyaline, often ciliate or irregularly toothed, apices
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cauline petiolate or sessile, blade obovate, spatulate, oblanceolate, lanceolate, elliptic, or linear, margins entire. Thyrses continuous or interrupted, cylindric
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tomentose to floccose or glabrous; blade oblong-ovate or oblanceolate to elliptic to oval, 0.3–3 (–4) × 0.1–2.5 cm, densely lanate to tomentose or floccose abaxially
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length, monomorphic or dimorphic; stamens included or exserted; filaments glabrous or pilose proximally. Achenes various shades of brown, or black, not winged
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tip of leaf axis, separate to slightly overlapping, oblanceolate or elliptic to broadly obovate or cuneate to flabellate, sometimes nearly orbiculate,
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series, (usually green) 2–3-nerved, or not notably nerved, or pinnately nerved, elliptic, lanceolate, oblong, or obovate, usually unequal, sometimes ± equal
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basal or basal and cauline; alternate; petiolate or sessile; blades filiform, linear, lanceolate, ovate, elliptic, oblong, oblanceolate, obovate, cuneate
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pubescence or relief","body architecture or shape","body relief","branch arrangement or course or shape","branch structure in adjective form","bristle architecture"
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bractlets narrowly elliptic-lanceolate to broadly ovate, 0.5–3 mm wide, usually entire, sometimes toothed; hypanthium interior pilose or glabrous; sepals
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to lanceolate, oblong, or obovate, rarely deltate, with 1 [or 2] ± conspicuous submarginal vein [s], margins entire, serrulate, or glandular-serrulate, usually
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to ± elliptic, elliptic-oblong, or ovate-rhombic, sometimes ± obovate, oblanceolate, or suborbiculate, 3–8 cm, ± coriaceous to ± thin, lobes 0 or 1–4 per
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52, 62, 70. Shrubs or trees, erect or spreading, unarmed or armed with thorns; bud-scales present, buds glabrate. Leaves deciduous or persistent, present
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to distal nodes, 0 or 1 (or 2) in each axil, thus 1 or 2 (–4) flowers at each node; bracts absent or present. Pedicels nearly absent or shorter than calyces
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foliage leaves simple or 1-odd-pinnately compound; petioles usually present. Simple leaves: blade narrowly elliptic, oblanceolate, or obovate, 1.2-7.5 cm. Compound
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to elliptic, ovate, or broadly ovate, 1.5–6 (–9) mm, margins herbaceous or silvery and scarious, apex rounded or obtuse to acute, acuminate, or spinescent
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[rarely pale-pink], or erect, pink to red or blackish red, spatulate or ± orbiculate, base clawed; stamens (8–) 10–20 (–23) in 1 or 2 series, shorter than
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