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- ovoid, dark redbrown, to 1.2cm, slightly resinous. Leaves 2 per fascicle, spreading or ascending, persisting 3–8 years, 2–8cm × 0.7–2 (–3) mm, twisted8 KB (587 words) - 00:25, 30 July 2020
- pale-brown, 0.5-1 mm diam., producing proliferations. Stem upright, to 1.6 cm, 5mm diam., commonly 2 leaves per stem. Trophophore stalk 0-1.8cm, to 2.5 times5 KB (467 words) - 00:29, 30 July 2020
- Asteraceae (section Key to Genera of Group 8 Heads radiate; receptacles epaleate; pappi none or nearly so)Ambrosiinae); ovaries inferior, 2-carpellate, and 1-locular with 1 basally attached, anatropous ovule; styles 1 in each bisexual, functionally staminate, or275 KB (5,940 words) - 15:30, 15 December 2020
- Magnolia pyramidata, Magnolia tripetala, Magnolia virginiana Linnaeus Sp. Pl. 1: 535. 1753. , Gen. Pl. ed. 5 240. 1754. Frederick G. Meyer Etymology: For Pierre9 KB (426 words) - 08:23, 30 July 2020
- orange to purple-brown. Branches spreading, ascending at tips. Leaves 5–8cm × 1–2mm, yellow-green, apex acute. Seed-cones maturing in 2 years, shedding4 KB (485 words) - 00:25, 30 July 2020
- cylindro-ovoid, redbrown, to 0.8cm, resinous. Leaves 5 per fascicle, spreading to ascending, persisting 2–4 years, 5–10cm × (0.9–) 1–1.5 (–2) mm, straight, slightly7 KB (540 words) - 00:28, 30 July 2020
- trunk to 1.2m diam. Twigs mostly purple or redbrown, usually glaucous. Buds slightly resinous. Leaves mainly 4–5 per fascicle, 7–17cm × 1–1.2 (–1.5) mm.4 KB (585 words) - 00:24, 30 July 2020
- redbrown, 1.5–2cm, not resinous; scale margins fringed. Leaves (2–) 3 per fascicle, spreading-ascending, persisting (2–) 4–6 (–7) years, 10–15cm × ca. 1.5mm7 KB (514 words) - 00:34, 30 July 2020
- Branches mostly horizontally spreading, not ascending at tip. Leaves (4–) 5–8cm × 1–2 (–3) mm, yellow-green, apex narrowly acute to short-acuminate. Seed-cones5 KB (535 words) - 00:27, 30 July 2020
- also axillary, simple panicles, panicles of 1-many spikelike branches, spikelike racemes, spikes, or, in 1 genus, a solitary spikelet, in dioecious taxa34 KB (1,217 words) - 04:33, 30 July 2020
- Eriogonum subg. Eucycla (section Key 1—California)semileaflike or leaflike. Peduncles absent or erect, usually stout. Involucres 1–8 or more per cluster, narrowly turbinate to campanulate; teeth (3–) 5–6 (–10)80 KB (1,352 words) - 10:29, 30 July 2020
- frequently glaucous, aging darker. Buds ovoid to narrowly ovoid, redbrown, 1–1.5 (–2) cm, resinous. Leaves 3 per fascicle (to 5 in adventitious or disturbed growth)8 KB (577 words) - 00:24, 30 July 2020
- light-redbrown, 0.8–1cm; scale margins entire. Leaves 5 per fascicle, mostly ascending and upcurved, persisting 5–8 years, 3–7cm × 1–1.5 (–2) mm, mostly8 KB (576 words) - 00:30, 30 July 2020
- 0.6–1cm, resinous or not resinous; scale margins white-fringed. Leaves 2 per fascicle, spreading or ascending, persisting 3–4 years, 2–8cm × 1–1.5mm,7 KB (524 words) - 00:35, 30 July 2020
- branches usually without obvious bracts. Spikelets with (0-1) 2 (3-6) glumes (empty bracts) subtending 1-60 florets, glumes and florets distichously attached35 KB (1,876 words) - 02:36, 30 July 2020
- Seed-cones cylindric, 8–9 × 4–4.5cm, olive-green, turning to yellowish-brown, then darker brown, sessile, apex round; scales ca. 2.5–3 × 2.8–3.8cm, pubescent; bracts7 KB (521 words) - 00:30, 30 July 2020
- chartaceous or scarious or margins and/or apices notably scarious, sometimes in 1–2 series, distinct, subequal, and herbaceous with margins and/or apices barely79 KB (1,886 words) - 20:55, 29 July 2020
- (basal persistent or not to flowering); alternate; sessile or petiolate; blades 1-nerved (3-nerved), linear to lanceolate, oblanceolate, or spatulate (bases97 KB (2,063 words) - 21:58, 29 July 2020
- compound, 1-locular; placentas parietal, 3–14 [–20+]; style 1; nectary usually forming chamber around base of style; stigma lobes 3–14 [–20+], 1 per placenta40 KB (1,967 words) - 15:27, 15 December 2020
- rarely leaflike. Spikelets 1-flowered; scales 0–1. Flowers unisexual; staminate flowers without scales; pistillate flowers with 1 scale with fused margins80 KB (3,349 words) - 15:29, 15 December 2020
- Kobresia; perianth absent or with (1–) 3–6 (–30) bristles and/or scales, usually falling off with fruit; stamens usually (1–) 3, rarely more, usually distinct;24 KB (775 words) - 01:21, 30 July 2020
- Likewise, flowers vary in size from less than 1 mm and barely visible to the naked eye (Platystele Garay), to 15–20 cm diameter (some Paphiopedilum Pfitzer, Phragmipedium41 KB (2,210 words) - 05:19, 30 July 2020
- Brassicaceae (section Key to Genera of Group 1)sepals usually caducous, rarely persistent, 4, in 2 decussate pairs (1 pair lateral, 1 median), distinct [connate], not saccate or lateral (inner) pair (or107 KB (3,718 words) - 12:07, 30 July 2020
- shorter than petals; torus absent; carpels 1–5, distinct, laterally touching, partially adnate to hypanthium, styles 1–5, lateral, distinct, adnate most of length26 KB (2,400 words) - 15:31, 15 December 2020
- dorsal wall, indehiscent or partially dehiscent apically. Seeds 1 per mericarp, glabrous. x = 7, 8. North America, Mexico, West Indies, Central America, South13 KB (672 words) - 11:32, 30 July 2020
- broadly lanceolate, glabrous, lobed; functional anthers (1-2) 3, 0.1-5 mm; ovaries glabrous. Caryopses 1-4 mm, ellipsoidal, often shallowly ventrally grooved87 KB (2,178 words) - 03:17, 30 July 2020
- suborbiculate, 1–8 (–12) cm, length 1.6–2 times width, coriaceous to thin, lobes 0 or 1–4 or 5 (–9), sinuses usually shallow, sometimes deep, veins 1–8 (–10) per28 KB (995 words) - 14:38, 30 July 2020
- 2-22 florets, sometimes with 1, sterile florets usually distal to the reproductively functional florets, sometimes with 1 or 2 staminate or sterile florets45 KB (1,179 words) - 03:07, 30 July 2020
- sometimes borne singly. Calyculi 0 or of 1–15+ bractlets in 1 (–2+) series. Phyllaries persistent or falling, usually in 1–2 series, usually distinct, equal to23 KB (1,021 words) - 21:10, 29 July 2020
- monadelphous, in more than 1 concentric series in Sidalcea, staminal column sometimes toothed at apex, stamens 5–many, filaments connate; anthers 1-thecate; staminodes20 KB (532 words) - 11:23, 30 July 2020
- lanceolate, linear, rhombic, orbiculate, or ovate (and intermediate shapes), often 1 (–2+) -palmately or pinnately lobed, ultimate margins entire or toothed, faces21 KB (800 words) - 22:59, 29 July 2020
- caudex woody or fleshy, taprooted to fibrous-rooted or rhizomatous. Stems 1–200, strongly decumbent to erect, sometimes prostrate or sprawling, frequently79 KB (2,746 words) - 18:50, 29 July 2020
- Senecio (section Group 1. Amplectentes (spp. 1–10))borne singly. Calyculi usually of 1–8+ bractlets (bractlets often intergrading with distal peduncular bracts, mostly 1/5–1/2+ times phyllaries), sometimes30 KB (1,295 words) - 21:10, 29 July 2020
- nectaries, ovules usually several or many per locule; styles 1 or 3 (–4); stigmas several and distinct or 1 and capitate. Fruits capsular and loculicidal or septicidal29 KB (1,493 words) - 05:37, 30 July 2020
- Receptacles flat to slightly convex, pitted, epaleate. Ray-florets (8–) 12–35 (–75+); usually in 1 series, in 2–5 series, rarely in 4–5+ series in S. frondosum62 KB (1,546 words) - 15:28, 15 December 2020
- apices not or only slightly gaping at maturity; lower glumes 1/5 – 3/4 as long as the spikelets, 1-5-veined, truncate, acute, or acuminate; upper glumes slightly26 KB (1,343 words) - 04:00, 30 July 2020
- slits (lateral); pistils 1, 4–5-carpellate; ovary superior (inferior in some Vaccinioideae), incompletely (2–) 5–10-locular (1-locular in some Monotropoideae)33 KB (1,383 words) - 13:10, 30 July 2020
- glumes, occasionally below the pedicels. Spikelets with 1 (2-3) florets. Glumes usually (0) 1 (2-3) -veined, apices entire, erose, or toothed, truncate42 KB (1,621 words) - 04:38, 30 July 2020
- absent in pistillate flowers; staminodes usually absent, or 1-10 or 16-19; ovary 1, superior, 1-locular, rarely 2-locular proximally, or 3-5 locular, placentation29 KB (1,113 words) - 10:14, 30 July 2020
- not spikelike, not disarticulating. Spikelets 1-27 mm long, 0.5-9 mm wide, laterally compressed, with (1) 2-60 florets; disarticulation below the fertile33 KB (1,388 words) - 03:56, 30 July 2020
- cellular-reticulate, cells smooth or minutely roughened, with 1–8 papillae, without caruncle except in A. triquetrum. x = 7, 8, 9. Mostly Northern Hemisphere Species 550–70043 KB (1,553 words) - 05:48, 30 July 2020
- glabrous or pubescent abaxially, glabrous adaxially; tepals connate proximally 1/4–1/3 their length, monomorphic or dimorphic; stamens usually exserted, occasionally24 KB (947 words) - 10:41, 30 July 2020
- or in glomerules, rarely aggregated in second-order heads. Calyculi 0 or of 1–15+ bractlets. Phyllaries persistent or falling, usually in 3–5+ series, usually30 KB (1,803 words) - 22:30, 29 July 2020
- reduced leaflike bracts.) Involucres cylindric to ovoid or spheric, (1–6 ×) 1–8 cm. Phyllaries many in 5–20 series, subequal or weakly to strongly, outer60 KB (2,205 words) - 13:43, 10 February 2021
- principal angles, 1–5 mm) plus 0–8 usually shorter scales (0.2–2 mm). x = 17. North America, Mexico, in the Old World Species 52, including 1 hybrid (52 in32 KB (1,118 words) - 23:14, 29 July 2020
- sepals not persistent in fruit, 5; upper sepal 1, spurred, 8-24 mm; lateral sepals 2, ± ovate to elliptic, 8-18 mm; lower sepals 2, similar to lateral sepals;9 KB (574 words) - 08:34, 30 July 2020
- ovate, or lanceolate, 1-15 mm; petals 0-22 (-150), distinct, yellow, rarely white, red, or green, plane, linear to orbiculate, 1-26 mm; nectary present15 KB (560 words) - 08:33, 30 July 2020
- 471. Annuals, perennials, subshrubs, or shrubs (often ± woolly annuals 1–10 cm). Leaves basal and/or cauline; usually alternate, rarely opposite; petiolate25 KB (1,822 words) - 20:30, 29 July 2020
- subterranean panicles; branches sometimes spikelike and secund, sometimes less than 1 cm; disarticulation usually below the glumes, sometimes at the base of the panicle21 KB (1,188 words) - 03:56, 30 July 2020
- Calyculi 0 or 1–5+ bractlets. Involucres campanulate to cylindric, 5–12 mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, usually 8, 13, or 21 (–30+) in 1–2 series, erect40 KB (1,171 words) - 21:16, 29 July 2020
- only on distal 1/3 with central column disintegrating; pedicellate or sessile. Seeds usually numerous (1–100+ per locule), usually in 1, rarely 2, rows32 KB (1,609 words) - 21:02, 7 June 2022
- can be determined using a medium power (40×) dissecting microscope (see Fig. 1 in M. D. Windham and I. A. Al-Shehbaz 2006). To facilitate the study of ploidy73 KB (2,294 words) - 12:15, 30 July 2020
- 3. Treatment on page 197. Roots 2-80 cm, tuberlike or fibrous, dry or fleshy; buds often less than 3 mm. Stems 1-8 (-19) per root; base firmly attached3 KB (434 words) - 08:42, 30 July 2020
- usually persistent (readily falling), usually in 2–8+ series, distinct, and unequal, sometimes in 1–2 series, distinct, and subequal to equal, usually17 KB (728 words) - 22:41, 29 July 2020
- heads of 1–2-flowered heads in Lagascea). Calyculi 0. Involucres cylindric to hemispheric or rotate. Phyllaries persistent, 4–45 (–100+) in 1–6+ series10 KB (633 words) - 23:14, 29 July 2020
- closed from 1/3 to slightly more than 1/2 their length; and those such as F. tracbypbylla, in which they are not closed or closed for less than 1/4 their length52 KB (3,291 words) - 03:08, 30 July 2020
- dry, mealy, rarely absent, endocarp multiple-seeded); pyrenes 1–10, connate or not. Seeds 1–10, distinct or connate along radial faces of stony endocarp41 KB (2,034 words) - 13:11, 30 July 2020
- Agave ×ajoensis, Agave ×arizonica, Agave ×glomeruliflora Linnaeus Sp. Pl. 1: 323. 1753. , Gen. Pl. ed. 5, 150. 1754. James L. Reveal, Wendy C. Hodgson24 KB (1,110 words) - 06:12, 30 July 2020
- 253. Annuals, biennials, perennials, subshrubs, shrubs, or treelets, 1–80 (–300) cm (some rhizomatous or with woody caudices). Leaves basal, basal and cauline17 KB (818 words) - 23:57, 29 July 2020
- more rarely herbaceous, commissures between sepals 1-veined, herbaceous; lobes green or purplish, 1–5-veined, broadly triangular to lance-oblong or linear36 KB (1,364 words) - 10:24, 30 July 2020
- triangular (lengths 0.7–1 times stigmatic lines). Cypselae narrowly obconic to cylindric, sometimes somewhat compressed, ribs usually 8–10 (either darker and18 KB (1,000 words) - 21:32, 29 July 2020
- funnelform; stamens (2–) 3–5, with 4 mostly connate in pairs, appearing as only (1–) 3 stamens; anthers connate or distinct, pepos, rarely capsules, elongate19 KB (877 words) - 11:15, 30 July 2020
- longitudinally; staminodes absent (except in Aquilegia and Clematis); pistils 1-many; styles present or absent, often persistent in fruit as beak. Fruits achenes13 KB (392 words) - 08:32, 30 July 2020
- species complexes that need taxonomic revision: (1) The E. palustris complex (species 1–7) is discussed under 1. E. palustris. (2) The E. tenuis complex (species13 KB (1,127 words) - 02:15, 30 July 2020
- with 2–20+ spikes, 1–1.5 times as long as wide in fruit; proximal bracts scalelike or bristlelike, rarely leaflike, not more than 5 cm, not more than 2 times57 KB (937 words) - 01:54, 30 July 2020
- broadly prow-shaped. Panicles 1-41 cm, erect to nodding or lax, tightly contracted to open, with 1-100+ spikelets; branches 0.5-20 cm, erect to reflexed, terete9 KB (1,015 words) - 03:17, 30 July 2020
- branches, sometimes also axillary, usually of 1-many spikelike branches, these in digitate clusters of 1-13+ on a peduncle or attached, directly or indirectly31 KB (2,561 words) - 04:21, 30 July 2020
- sometimes smooth; staminode included to exserted, flattened distally, 0.2–0.8 (–1.1) mm diam., tip straight to recurved, distal 5–60 (–90) % hairy, hairs to36 KB (1,140 words) - 19:13, 29 July 2020
- Pistillate flowers lacking perianth, pistil naked, or in few species with (1–) 3–5-lobed perianth, commonly enclosed within pair of foliaceous bracteoles;45 KB (1,022 words) - 09:34, 30 July 2020
- forked, cruciform, stellate, malpighiaceous, or dendritic, often more than 1 kind present. Stems usually erect to ascending, sometimes decumbent or prostrate85 KB (2,094 words) - 12:08, 30 July 2020
- spaced veins. Inflorescences spikes, usually exserted, with 1-3 (5) spikelets per node, internodes (1.5) 2-26 mm; rachises with scabridulous, scabrous, or ciliate45 KB (3,070 words) - 03:00, 30 July 2020
- falling, vestigial, or of 8–12 linear to subulate, laciniate or fimbriate scales, sometimes 1–2 (–4) scales aristate, or of 1–2 (–6) or 8–35 bristles. sw United7 KB (521 words) - 23:47, 29 July 2020
- the upper florets, then the florets not very plump at maturity. Spikelets 1-8 mm, usually dorsally compressed, some¬times subterete or laterally compressed26 KB (1,480 words) - 04:05, 30 July 2020
- dark green, often thick; stigmas usually 3, sometimes 1 and subcapitate, white to pale green, 1–2 mm. Fruits erect or pendent, capsular or baccate. Seeds17 KB (687 words) - 06:11, 30 July 2020
- Taxa Trillium subg. Phyllantherum, Trillium subg. Trillium Linnaeus Sp. Pl. 1: 339. 1753. , Gen. Pl. ed. 5, 158. 1754. Frederick W. Case Jr. Common names:30 KB (822 words) - 06:13, 30 July 2020
- rarely unequal (Tiarella); ovary superior to inferior, 1–2 (–3) -locular, ovaries fully connate when 1-locular, proximally connate to varying degrees when27 KB (1,591 words) - 13:14, 30 July 2020
- usually glabrous (rarely tomentose) adaxially; tepals connate proximally 1/5–1/2 their length, monomorphic or dimorphic; stamens included or exserted; filaments30 KB (1,075 words) - 10:46, 30 July 2020
- subg. Acetosella, Rumex subg. Platypodium, Rumex subg. Rumex Linnaeus Sp. Pl. 1: 333. 1753. , Gen. Pl. ed. 5, 156. 1754. Sergei L. Mosyakin Common names: Dock sorrel41 KB (1,085 words) - 10:05, 30 July 2020
- rounded to laterally compressed, with 1 (-3) floret (s) per spikelet; disarticulation above the glumes. Glumes 0-1-veined; calluses poorly developed, usually22 KB (1,094 words) - 04:32, 30 July 2020
- Euphorbia vermiculata, Euphorbia villifera Roeper in J. É. Duby Bot. Gall. 1: 412. 1828. Victor W. Steinmann, Jeffery J. Morawetz, Paul E. Berry, Jess A36 KB (819 words) - 18:21, 29 July 2020
- genusIris Show Lower Taxa Iris subg. Iris, Iris subg. Limniris Linnaeus Sp. Pl. 1: 38. 1753. , Gen. Pl. ed. 5, 24. 1754. Norlan C. Henderson Etymology: Greek20 KB (1,129 words) - 06:06, 30 July 2020
- semiterete, or subterete, rarely laminar, 0.1–8 cm, usually ± succulent, base spurred or not, margins entire, (with 1 abaxial apical hydathode); veins not conspicuous21 KB (778 words) - 13:02, 30 July 2020
- 378. Shrubs or trees, sometimes forming clonal thickets, 1–400 dm, glabrous or hairy. Stems 1–20+; bark reddish, reddish-brown, gray-brown, or dark gray;43 KB (1,828 words) - 14:17, 30 July 2020
- 2–60 (–120) × 1.2–40 cm, nearly smooth to tuberculate, glabrous or pubescent; areoles usually elliptic, circular, or obovate, 3–8 (–10) × 1–7 (–10) mm; wool34 KB (1,067 words) - 09:16, 30 July 2020
- borne singly or in corymbiform, paniculiform, or racemiform arrays (heads with 1 floret each aggregated into second-order heads in Echinops). Calyculi 0 (involucres15 KB (836 words) - 20:05, 29 July 2020
- with 1 floret; rachillas not prolonged beyond the florets; disarticulation above the glumes. Glumes often longer than the florets, thin, usually 1-3-veined23 KB (1,150 words) - 04:51, 30 July 2020
- proximal 1/5–1/3 indehiscent, rarely completely, connective splitting or not, sides glabrous, papillate, or hairy, sutures denticulate, teeth to 0.1–0.2 mm29 KB (982 words) - 19:10, 29 July 2020
- Phytoneuron 2011-28: 1–8. Nesom, G. L. 2012g. Taxonomic summary of Erythranthe sect. Achlyopitheca (Phrymaceae). Phytoneuron 2012-42 1–4. Nesom, G. L. 2012h49 KB (1,607 words) - 18:59, 29 July 2020
- papillate); pappi 0, or persistent, of (1–) 2–4 (–8), usually ± barbellate awns or scales, rarely coroniform or of 1–2, smooth to ciliate or barbed awns or12 KB (744 words) - 23:22, 29 July 2020
- victoris, Ribes viscosissimum, Ribes watsonianum, Ribes wolfii Linnaeus Sp. Pl. 1: 200. 1753. , Gen. Pl. ed. 5, 94. 1754 ,. Nancy R. Morin Common names: Currant gooseberry23 KB (1,464 words) - 13:16, 30 July 2020
- or pale green; nectary annular, 5 glands, or absent; pistil (1–) 3-carpellate; styles (1–) 3, distinct or connate basally, unbranched, 2-fid, or multifid24 KB (874 words) - 18:18, 29 July 2020
- simple or bifurcate; cincinni circinate or not. Pedicels erect to pendent, 1-35 mm. Flowers: petals erect to, rarely, ascending (sometimes tips outcurved)10 KB (581 words) - 12:54, 30 July 2020
- articulate, 0.8–32 cm. Fruits erect, green maturing to brown, capsular, 3-valved, not strongly winged, ± oblong-obovate, 1.5–7.7 × 0.8–3.3 cm, 1.1–4.8 times longer37 KB (2,628 words) - 05:42, 30 July 2020
- styles usually subapical, rarely lateral; ovule 1. Fruits aggregated achenes, individually deciduous, 1–260, obliquely ± ovoid, 0.5–2.6 mm, glabrous or31 KB (1,939 words) - 13:53, 30 July 2020
- usually empty; floral scales with 1 vein, or rarely to 10 longitudinal parallel veins; basal spikelets rarely present in 8a1d. E. sect. Eleocharis ser. Tenuissimae37 KB (456 words) - 02:15, 30 July 2020
- Phyllaries persistent or falling, 1–75+ in 1 (–2) series or 0 (the “involucre” then interpreted as constituted of 1 series of receptacular paleae; phyllaries15 KB (799 words) - 23:36, 29 July 2020
- Monolopia); pappi 0 or of 1–12+ aristate, erose, laciniate, or truncate scales or awns in 1–2 series (often 2 sorts of scales in combination on 1 cypsela). w North11 KB (627 words) - 23:52, 29 July 2020
- sometimes also axillary, panicles of 1-many spikelike branches, these digitate or racemose on the rachis, spreading to erect, 1 or more branches completely or22 KB (1,167 words) - 04:18, 30 July 2020
- Myrtocarpus, Ludwigia sect. Pterocaulon, Ludwigia sect. Seminudae Linnaeus Sp. Pl. 1: 118. (as Ludvigia), [1204]. 1753 Peter C. Hoch Common names: Water-primro30 KB (1,654 words) - 21:01, 7 June 2022
- of 20–50 bristles in 1–2+ series, or of 5–20 (sometimes aristate) scales in 1–2 series, or combinations of bristles and scales in 1–2+ series, rarely coroniform11 KB (674 words) - 23:30, 29 July 2020