sessile, not connate basally; blade oblanceolate to broadly rhombic [ovate-deltate to elliptic or oblanceolate], laminar, 3–11 [–40] cm, fleshy, base not spurred
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acuminate to obtuse, surfaces glabrous or pubescent. Inflorescences (2 or) 3–8-flowered, convex panicles; branches glabrous or hairy; bracteoles (not seen in 97
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Leaf-blade ovate to deltate, elliptic, or nearly orbiculate, 0.5–10 (–14) × 0.5–8 cm, thin, margins doubly serrate or serrate (or crenate to shallowly
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appear 2-ranked, or opposite in 4 ranks, or whorled, deltate-scalelike to linear, decurrent, sessile or petioled; adult leaves appressed or spreading, often
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blade ± rhombic to elliptic-oblong or ovate-rhombic, sometimes suborbiculate, 3–8 cm, coriaceous or thin, base cuneate to ± rounded, lobes (0 or) 1–4 per
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obovate, or obdeltate to rhombic, 0.7–5 mm diam.; wool white, yellow, or tan to brown. Spines with whole epidermis sheath deciduous; major spines not or only
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160, 163. Herb or shrubs [trees], annual or perennial, unarmed, monoecious or dioecious; hairs unbranched [stellate], sometimes glandular, or absent; latex
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straight or flexuous, short-shoots short-to-elongate, branched or not, sometimes interspersed with long-shoot segments. Leaves persistent or drought or winter-deciduous
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Pedicels eglandular. Flowers: sepals deltate, hairy, eglandular or glandular; petals pink, obovate, 8–20 mm, apex entire or emarginate. 2n = 21. Phenology:
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architecture or shape","pinna orientation","pinna shape","ridge pubescence or texture","root architecture","root architecture or pubescence or relief","root
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Bark exfoliating readily or tardily in reddish-brown or blackish sheets, or gray to brown strips or strings. Branches spreading or ascending, often stunted
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lobes 4–5, deltate. Cypselae 2–3-angled (peripheral) or strongly compressed, ellipsoid to obovoid (glabrous or ciliate on the 2–3 angles or ribs); pappi
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[petiolate]; blades rhombic to lanceolate or oblanceolate [elliptic, spatulate, trullate], margins entire or toothed, faces glabrous or puberulent to pilose
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for many years, ovoid or globose, 1–3.5 cm; scales persistent, in 2 equally inserted whorls of 3 (–4), valvate, rhombic-deltate, basifixed, thick and woody
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erect, white or pinkish, oblong-oblanceolate or obovate to oblong-obovate, flabelliform-reniform, or obovate-rhombic, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled
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appressed, or ± ascending), or hirsute-pilose (hairs erect, straight), or ± villous (hairs wavy or wavy-crinkled), or hairs tightly coiled or 1/2 coiled
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cushion-shaped, or cylindric, 4–10 cm, smooth, ribbed, or warty, flesh yellow to light orange or greenish or whitish, bitter or not. Seeds whitish to cream or tawny
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erect or ascending, ultimate branches strict to diffuse. Leaves: stipules ± persistent, filiform to subulate; blade ovate to round, rhombic, or reniform
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rounded to ± rhombic, median lobe deltate to ovate, apex acuminate or mucronate; primary-veins 7 (–9); basal leaves often less distinctly lobed or entire and
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unequal, green, deltate to lanceolate or linear, margins sometimes narrowly scarious (sometimes ciliate), apices acute (faces glabrous or stipitate to setose-glandular)
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