persistent, 3, distinct, green, maroon, or with maroon markings, foliaceous, oblong, ovate, or lanceolate, alternating with bracts; petals shriveling after anthesis
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spines (except in A. spinosus). Leaves alternate, petiolate; blade rhombic-ovate, ovate, obovate, spatulate, lanceolate, oblanceolate, or orbiculate to linear
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blade elliptic, obovate, or ovate, membranous to coriaceous, margins entire, undulate, or serrulate [irregularly serrate], plane or revolute, surfaces multicellular
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petiole 0.1–3 (–4) cm, mostly tomentose to floccose or glabrous; blade oblong-ovate or oblanceolate to elliptic to oval, 0.3–3 (–4) × 0.1–2.5 cm, densely
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elliptic, obovate, oblong, oblong-lingulate, oblongelliptic, or rarely orbicular or diamond-shaped, 1–14 mm; base decurrent or not; margins plane, green or yellow-green
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squarrose, ovate, ovatelanceolate, oblong-lanceolate, or oblong-ovate, widest beyond base, not or occasionally plicate; base not decurrent; margins plane or recurved
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recurved, or squarrose, ovate-acuminate, ovate-orbicular, oblong-lanceolate, oblong-ovate, or ovatelanceolate, concave; margins plane or rarely revolute to
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Leaves winter or drought-deciduous, opposite; petiole present; blade ovate, elliptic-ovate, elliptic, suborbiculate, lanceolate, or linear-lanceolate, herbaceous
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flaccid, ovate, ovatelanceolate, oblong-lanceolate, or oblong-ovate, symmetric or asymmetric, often concave, not plicate; base decurrent; margins plane or recurved
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lateral tuft-like branchlets. Leaves lingulate, elliptic, broadly ovate, ovate or oblong-lanceolate to broadly or occasionally narrowly lanceolate; margins
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dry, erect-spreading when moist, oblong-ovate or ovatelanceolate, plicate on one side, 2-plicate, or plane; margins plane or ± recurved proximally, entire
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lanceolate, linear, elliptic, obovate, or oblong, rarely ovate or cupshaped, (0.6–) 0.8–5 cm, fleshy or not, margins plane, flat, 3–5 (–7) -lobed, apex rounded
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exposed, vertical, sessile, convex to almost plane abaxially, plane, ± concave adaxially, lenticular, ovate, obovate, elliptic, or orbiculate [elongate]
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glaucous, shiny or dull, widely ovate or oblong-ovate to obovate, 2–5 × 1–3.5 cm, base rounded to ± cuneate, margins entire, plane, surfaces smooth or scabrous
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15 mm. Stem central strand strong. Leaves oblong-ovate to oblong-lanceolate, keeled or concave, margins plane, costa prominent; juxtacostal and marginal
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obovate or ovate to oblong or oblanceolate, membranous or coriaceous, margins entire or crenate (sometimes serrulate) [glandular-crenate], plane or revolute
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usually simple. Stem-leaves ovate to ovatelanceolate; base not cordate, occasionally rounded, not decurrent; margins plane to reflexed or revolute, entire;
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when moist, obovate, spatulate, or lingulate, rarely broadly oblong-lanceolate; margins plane or revolute, usually entire; apices acute to truncate or emarginate
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at top of appressed base when dry, weakly to widely spreading when moist; oblong, elliptical or ligulate to longlanceolate, adaxial surface flat or shallowly
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broadly to narrowly ovate, widest beyond base, not to strongly plicate; base decurrent or not; margins sometimes recurved basally, usually plane distally, sinuate
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