bristles 0–4 (–5), light-brown to stramineous, stout, usually unequal, rudimentary to equaling achene; stamens 3; anthers dark yellow to stramineous, 1
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sheaths reddish-brown, bladeless, pilose; others grading from dark red to green on back, tan-hyaline on front, reddish-brown dotted and usually pubescent at
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irregular, corky wings; twigs reddish, pubescent. Buds brown, ovoid, acute, pubescent; scales brown, pilose on outer surface, ciliate on margins. Leaves:
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reflexed bractlets. Involucres 6–8 mm. Florets 5–9. Cypselae light tan to dark-brown, 2.2–3.6 mm, faces smooth to tuberculate, not grooved; pappi (falling)
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inner margin brown-streaked, broad, membranous. Tepals pink to purple, usually pale-yellow in cup, outer pale abaxially, main veins dark green to purple
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gray-green, tomentose to tomentulose, adaxial surface dark green, villosulous or puberulent, glabrescent; usually 3-veined from base, rarely pinnately veined (veins
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obscure. Inflorescences: staminate flowers usually solitary, sometimes 2–3 per fascicle; pistillate flowers usually solitary, rarely 2 per fascicle. Staminate
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Plants slender, 15–30 cm. Bulbs dark-brown, 12 mm diam. Stems simple, rarely 1-branched. Leaves 3–4; basal leaves usually 2, blade narrowly lanceolate to
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papery patches, mature rough, gray-brown; branches spreading; twigs ± straight, new growth pubescent, 1-year old mid brown, older gray; thorns on twigs sparse
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along septum at base of fruit and also apically. Seeds 10–20 per locule, dark-brown, ellipsoid. x = 13. Introduced; Mexico, Asia (China), Asia (Himalaya)
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including wing usually 0.2–0.3 mm wide, often incurved adaxially, perigynia then boatshaped, ciliate-serrulate on distal body; beak coppery or dark-brown at tip
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(2–) 3–7 per fertile culm, 10–50 cm × 2–5 mm. Inflorescences usually dense, light to dark-brown and green, (0.8–) 1.1–2.6 cm × 9.5–17.5 mm; proximal internode
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present, sometimes difficult to observe, adnate portion dark reddish purple to nearly black, usually well developed, noticeably thickened, free portion relatively
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axile; styles 2, (erect); stigmas 2. Capsules 2-beaked. Seeds (10–100), tan or dark redbrown, linear-fusiform, (narrowly wing-margined), smooth. x = 7. United
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conspicuously narrowed at tip, to 130 cm. Petiole articulate to stem, dark-brown, round in cross-section, with 2 adaxial grooves. Blade ovate to elliptic
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mid leaf, one branch usually longer; alar cells not or poorly differentiated, rectangular; laminal cells smooth; distal cells usually longer than 6: 1. Specialized
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compact to short-creeping, usually 4–8 mm diam.; scales often uniformly brown but at least some on each plant with well-defined, dark, central stripe, linear-lanceolate
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rhizomatous, 1.5–2 (–3) m. Stems usually clustered, erect, profusely branched, herbaceous, stiff, glabrous, glaucous. Leaves: ocrea usually deciduous, brownish, cylindric
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ovoid; terminal spike staminate or androgynous. Proximal pistillate scales dark-brown to black, apex obtuse to subacute, cuspidate or awned. Perigynia erect
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unequal lengths; scales often uniformly brown but at least some bicolored with dark central stripe and pale-brown margins, narrowly lanceolate. Leaves 4–25
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