glabrous; style 0.5–1.4 mm. Capsules 40–70 × 3–4 mm. Seeds 4–25, reddish-brown to black, reniform, 1–1.5 mm, arillate. Phenology: Flowering ± year-round
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Spines 26–42 per areole, white with redbrown to nearly black tips (brown to reddish-brown with black tips in Davis Mountains); radial spines 21–31 per areole
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yellow or pink, circular or oblong, 0.1–0.3 mm diam.; appendages white or pink, oblong, flabellate, or suborbiculate, 0.1–0.6 × 0.2–1 mm, entire or crenate
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texture","leaf architecture or arrangement or shape or vernation","leaf architecture or pubescence or relief","leaf fixation or orientation","margin architecture"
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Petioles of fertile leaves reddish-brown to purple-black, 15-60 cm, coarsely scaly proximally. Petioles of sterile leaves reddish-brown, 2-30 cm, coarsely scaly
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straight or curving, acicular, often flexible, subterete to flattened basally; longer ones reddish-brown to ± black (rarely yellow to red in w Texas), or partly
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yellow [white or bluish]. Cypselae reddish-brown [black], bodies ± fusiform, sometimes ± compressed, ribs (or wings) 10, beaks equal to or shorter than
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to brown, rarely black, concolored, subulate to narrowly lanceolate, margins entire. Leaves monomorphic, clustered, 3–30 cm. Petiole brown or black, rounded
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3–2 mm, equal or subequal to tepals, smooth or slightly rugose, dehiscence regularly circumscissile. Seeds dark reddish-brown to nearly black, lenticular
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or black (or rarely yellowish or purplish brown), spherical or suborbiculate to reniform or obliquely triangular, plump or variously compressed, smooth,
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Capsules on stipe ca. 0.1 mm or shorter, narrowly ellipsoid, 3–4.2 mm, shorter than sepals. Seeds reddish-brown to black, suborbiculate, radicle obscure
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anthers 0.5 mm; styles 0.6–1.3 mm; stigmas 1.2–2.6 mm. Achenes reddish-brown to nearly black, sessile, oblong, ellipsoid, 2–2.4 × 0.4–0.5 (–0.7) mm, apex
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branched to produce dense many-stemmed tufts or mats bearing numerous crowded leaves; scales dark reddish-brown to black throughout, narrowly deltate, 2–4 × 0
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"sepal fusion","side architecture or function or pubescence","side architecture or pubescence or relief","side architecture or shape","side pubescence","side
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dull reddish-brown, 8–20 mm; central spines 6–12 per areole, widely spreading or nearly erect, reddish-brown to nearly black, rigid, straight or slightly
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1–5 (–6) cm, 1/4–1/2 (–1) times length of blade; indument of dark reddish-brown to black, narrowly deltate scales grading into glandular-hairs. Blade linear
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subshrubs or shrubs, annual or perennial, with taproot or thickened rootstock. Stems usually prostrate, sometimes erect, ascending, reclining, or decumbent
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"sepal fusion","side architecture or function or pubescence","side architecture or pubescence or relief","side architecture or shape","side pubescence","side
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structures: bracteoles or fruiting bracts brown, black, or reddish-brown, monomorphic or sometimes dimorphic; perianth segments deciduous or persistent in mature
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trichomes of 1 type. Seeds reddish-brown to black, (1–) 1.5–2 mm diam. 2n = 18. Phenology: Flowering Mar–Oct. Habitat: Roadsides, waste places, disturbed
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