cespitose; rhizomes short, tough, fibrous. Culms: fertile ones upright or nearly so; nodes without axillary bulblets. Leaves 3–9 per culm; sheaths of proximal
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[sometimes persistent]; pulp white; floral remnant usually persistent. Seeds black, broadly ovoid or broadly ellipsoid, 2–3 × 1.5 mm, warty. x = 11. Fla., West
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scarcely tomentose. Leaves strongly falcate-secund, somewhat sparse; margins nearly entire; costa almost smooth on abaxial surface; proximal laminal cells elongate
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blackish brown distally, brown to blackish brown proximally, sometimes brown or black throughout. Stems (1–) 4–10 or, sometimes, as much as 20 cm, often with short
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filaments dark maroon, 3–6 mm, dilated basally; anthers straight, dark maroon-black, 8–15 mm, dehiscence introrse; connectives straight, extended 1–1.5 mm beyond
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Copyright: Flora of North America Association Plants perennial, glabrous or nearly so, with thick, vertical or oblique rootstock (reaching deep into substrate)
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well developed, tubercles prominent on low ribs. Spines obscuring stems or nearly so; radial spines 6–8 (–12) per areole, acicular, elliptic in cross-section
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gray or reddish-brown to dark-brown, usually with dark-brown to purplish black tips; inner central spine 1 per areole, ± porrect, straight or the largest
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circular, 1 mm diam. Spines 5–12 per areole, yellowish white, some with black tips, nearly acicular, weak and easily broken off, 1.5–4 mm; radial spines encircling
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brown, or black, disciform, subglobular, with prominent encircling wing, 1.6–2.5 (–3) × 1.5–2.3 mm, ± plane or biconvex; disc gray, brown, or black, ± reniform
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numerous, straight to slightly recurved, 2-years old very dark-brown to black, ± slender, (1.5–) 2–3 (–5) cm. Leaves: petiole length 20–50 (–55) % blade
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rough, 3-4 mm thick, dehiscing to base or nearly so, sutures winged; nuts tan to brown and mottled with black patches, ovoid-ellipsoid, not compressed,
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distal 2/3 of stem, lax, interrupted, broadly paniculate, branches simple or nearly so; panicle leafless or leafy only near base. Pedicels articulated in proximal
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substrate; rhizomes thick, elongate rhizomes. Culms: fertile ones upright or nearly so; nodes without axillary bulblets. Leaves 4–7 per culm; sheaths of proximal
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1 mm wide, 4–7-ribbed; heads (young or mature) very pale, hemispheric to nearly globose, rarely short-cylindric, 4–10 mm wide, soft, flattened when pressed;
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5-1 mm; stigma papillose. Syncarps red when immature, becoming black, purple, or nearly white, cylindric, 1.5-2.5 × 1 cm; achenes light-brown, ovoid, 2-3
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lanceolate, margins thin; petals 5–7 (–9), corolla light yellow, streaked with black or reddish-brown resin canals, somewhat funnelform, 3–7 mm, lobes with margins
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lead-colored, rarely straw-colored, hemispheric to subglobose, 3–4 mm wide, mostly nearly glabrous; receptacle glabrous; outer involucral-bracts usually not reflexed
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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, densely farinose, keeled
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subglobose, 2–3.5 mm diam.; bracts absent. Flowers: perianth segments 5, distinct nearly to base; lobes broadly ovate to elliptic, 0.6–0.8 × 0.4–0.8 mm, apex obtuse
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