(1–) 3–5 per ocreate fascicle, base stipelike; perianth accrescent, greenish to greenish yellow, campanulate, indurate, glabrous; tepals 5, connate proximally
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Phyllaries 40–60+ in 3–5 series, in spirals, mostly tan, ovate to lanceolate, unequal, 3–10 × 1–1.8 mm, greenish distally but scarcely herbaceous, apices acute
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white or greenish white, 2–4 mm; tepals dimorphic, rarely slightly so, ovate, apex obtuse; anthers yellow to pink. Achenes included or exserted, tan to grayish
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2–5 cm, sparsely to moderately glandular-puberulent. Flowers: calyx light greenish, 5.5–8.5 mm, glandular-pubescent abaxially, tube 1.5–2.5 mm, lobes 5, 3–6
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appressed-pubescent, 1-year old usually dull yellowish to greenish brown or gray-brown to light or dark tan; thorns on twigs variable, straight to slightly recurved
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forming a thin or thick turf, green to greenish yellow or brown distally, blackish or weakly iridescent to metallic tan or yellowbrown proximally. Stems to
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in flower; bracts persistent, (deciduous after flowering in A. pringlei), tan or light-brown, scalelike, sometimes keeled, deltate or ovate, (tips often
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to ovary, 0.5–1.5 mm free from ovary, greenish or yellow-green; sepals 4, yellow, greenish yellow, green, greenish red, reddish orange, or purple, sometimes
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conic, 25–35 × 20–40 mm. Disc corollas 4.5–5.5 mm, lobes greenish to pink or purple. Cypselae tan, 4–5 mm, faces finely tuberculate, glabrous; pappi to 1
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oval to circular, 2–4 mm diam., not raised, sometimes somewhat sunken; wool tan to brown. Spines often absent or 1–2 (–3) per areole, spreading, whitish to
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15–40 mm. Disc corollas 8–9 mm, lobes purple to greenish (usually erect). Cypselae tan, disc cypselae tan, banded, 4–5 mm, usually glabrous (ray cypselae
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Capsules tan or light-brown, 1-locular to pseudo-3-locular, ellipsoid, (3.3–) 3.8–4.7 × (1.1–) 1.3–1.7 mm, nearly equal to tepals. Seeds tan, ellipsoid
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units less than 10 mm diam. Flowers: tepals greenish, greenish white, or pinkish green, striate, drying to tan, ± equal, 3.5–7 mm, rather rigid; style 1
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white, gray, tan, or brown, (9–) 16–25 (–50) mm; subcentral spines 2–3 in adaxial part of areole; central spines (1–) 3–8 per areole, (tan to) pale gray
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leaves or bracts, loose to dense, pedunculate. Flowers unisexual; tepals 6, greenish, yellow, or bronze, ovate to elliptic; staminate flowers sometimes with
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sparsely glandular-puberulent, lobes triangular, 1.5–2.5 × 2–2.5 mm; corolla greenish white or creamy white, 10–15 mm, glabrous externally, palate and proximal
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2-3 dm; pedicel 1-4 cm, stipitate-glandular. Flowers 4-15; bracteoles 6-9, tan to brown, 1-4 mm, caducous, stipitate-glandular; sepals 6, yellow, spatulate
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Trees, to 46 m. Twigs greenish, reddish, or grayish brown, normally retaining color on drying, stout, hirsute. Terminal buds tan to dark-brown, 9-18 mm
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arising from basal 1/2. Inflorescences 10–15-flowered; peduncle 0–1 mm; bracts tan or brown, lanceolate, 0.5–1 cm, apex acute. Pedicels lax, apex flared. Flowers:
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(1–) 3–7 per ocreate fascicle, base stipelike; perianth nonaccrescent, greenish to reddish-brown, campanulate, glabrous; tepals 4, in 2 whorls of 2, distinct
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