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  • petiole, margins entire, dentate, or crenulate, (sometimes undulate), apex mostly acute to rounded, surfaces glabrous or glandular-pubescent or puberulent. Inflorescences
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  • strongly crispate when dry, ovate to linear-lanceolate; vaginant laminae mostly acute, equal, ending on or near margin, or unequal, minor lamina ending between
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  • 2–4; blade thin, narrowly oblong to elliptic, 3.5–20 × 1.1–3 cm, apex mostly acute. Inflorescences usually paniculate racemes, simple racemes in small plants;
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  • or few-toothed, apex mostly acute. Inflorescences spikelike or subcapitate, dense, to ca. 50-flowered, 1–3.5 cm diam. Pedicels mostly to 5 mm. Flowers bisexual
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  • wide, apex acute to acuminate or cuspidate or subobtuse, surfaces sometimes farinose, mostly glaucous. Inflorescences: cyme 2–4-branched, mostly obpyramidal;
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  • numerous, proximal ones mostly short petiolate, distal ones sessile; blade narrowly lanceolate to elliptic, 5–15 (–20) × 2–4 mm, mostly acute at both ends, margin
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  • beaks, narrower than perigynia, margins thin, sometimes involute, apex mostly acute. Perigynia (10–) 15–40 (–45) per spike, ascending-spreading, green or
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  • Leaves mostly oblanceolate, largest 10–15 (–20) × 2–3 (–4) mm, pliant; longest capitular leaves 1–2 (–3) times head heights, mostly acute. Heads mostly in
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  • oblanceolate, 1–4 mm, bases whitish, margins ± entire, apices green or purple, mostly acute, minutely glandular. Ray-florets 10–30+; laminae violet-blue to lavender
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  • lanceolate, 20–70 × 7–20 mm, lengths mostly 2–5 times widths. Peduncles 2–15 mm. Phyllaries: apices (inner) mostly acute. Phenology: Flowering Aug–Nov. Habitat:
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  • proximal margins diverging 90°–150° from stalk, with up to 7 rounded to mostly linear, acute lobes; venation complex-reticulate, very coarse, veinlets included
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  • yellow-green to dark green, not glaucous, bearing stomates on all surfaces, apex mostly acute to sharp-pointed. Seed-cones 2.3–4.5 (–5) cm; scales broadly fan-shaped
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  • abruptly reduced distally, firm-herbaceous, margins scabrous, apices mostly acute, faces glabrous, little and obscurely gland-dotted (9–29 dots per mm²)
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  • proximally, lanceolate to narrowly elliptic distally, 10–60 × 3–15 mm, apex mostly acute, softly pubescent and glandular. Pedicels usually 1–3 times as long as
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  • apex rounded to acute, sometimes resinous. Leaves borne singly, spreading in all directions from twigs, persisting to 10 years, mostly 4-angled and square
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  • 15–30 (–40) × 2–6 (–8) mm, base acute or cuneate, apex obtuse to rounded or, sometimes, acute proximally to mostly acute distally, surfaces glabrous. Racemes
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  • ovate-rhombic, compressed, ± uniformly sized, 2–7 (–20) mm, base mostly hastate, acute, margin united almost to middle, entire or sparingly toothed, surfaces
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  • at base (similar to C. fastigiatum but broader), 25–32 × 4–7 mm, apex mostly acute, woolly-pubescent, sometimes densely so. Pedicels 1.5–3 times as long
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  • Phyllaries light green to tan, oblong to lanceolate, outer obtuse, inner mostly acute, margins and tips dark-brown. Cypselae obovoid, strigose; pappus bristles
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  • or not, and the apex narrowly acute and often hirsute-ciliate. Inflorescences are green, green-brown, or red-brown, mostly sessile, ovoid, ellipsoid, or
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  • or subentire, sometimes ciliate, ± strongly 3-nerved, apices obtuse to mostly acute, faces glabrous; mid and distal cauline spreading to reflexed, blades
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  • summer in D. cymosa subsp. marcescens and D. parva); petiole absent; blade mostly laminar, sometimes subterete, turgid ± throughout. Cymes: branches 2-3 (-6)
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  • capitular leaves mostly acute Logfia filaginoides 5 Outer pistillate paleae: bodies (except midnerves) chartaceous; bisexual corolla lobes mostly 5, yellowish
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  • stem and branch leaves of C. dendroides are mostly obtuse and apiculate; in C. americanum they are mostly acute, irrespective of the presence of an apiculus
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  • or light brown, without metallic sheen; pistillate scales acute to acuminate; ruderal mostly near the east coast. Carex ovalis 8 Perigynia lanceolate,
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  • slightly brackish wetlands, often emergent. Rhizomes at base of erect shoots, mostly horizontal, unbranched, to 70 cm × 5–40 mm, starchy, firm, scaly. Erect
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  • asterids (sympetaly, stamen number equal to petal number, stamen epipetaly, mostly 2–3-carpellate gynoecia); campanulids (early sympetaly), comprising eight
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  • (Leskea species have a strong costa ending near the apex), ovate, mostly bluntly acute leaves (Lindbergia has long-acuminate leaves), and a lack of erect
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  • populations are small trees forming rhizomatous copses (shinneries) and having mostly acute acorns. Populations of live oak on deep sands in south Texas differ from
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  • distally and brown proximally. Stems 0.2–4 (–10) cm, irregularly branching, mostly rounded-pentagonal but occasionally rounded-triangular in section, hyalodermis
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  • depressed-ovoid or napiform, sometimes elongated, becoming rhizomes, roots all or mostly adventitious). Stems erect, simple or basally branched. Leaves basal and
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  • indurate throats, lobes 5, erect to spreading, deltate; style-branch appendages mostly deltate (papillate). Cypselae (tan) oblong to oblong-obovoid, compressed
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  • locular, placentation free-central, basal, or axile in proximal half; ovules mostly campylotropous, bitegmic, crassinucellate; styles 1-5 (-6), distinct or
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  • herbaceous or herbaceous-tipped, otherwise mostly chartaceous, (apices erect, spreading, or reflexed, acute or acuminate to cuspidate or obtuse), faces
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  • plane, incurved, or variously recurved or revolute, mostly entire, 1- to multistratose, acuminate, acute to rounded-obtuse, typically with a hyaline awn,
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  • unbranched, rarely ± to much-branched or stellate. Leaves mostly deciduous, cauline, mostly alternate, reduced proximally or forming basal rosettes in
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  • transverse septa in 8a1a. E. sect. Eleocharis ser. Eleocharis. Spikelets mostly ovoid, seldom cylindric or narrowly ellipsoid, usually much narrower than
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  • have a ligule at the junction of the blade and the sheath. The ligule is mostly fused to the blade, with a narrow, entire or erose-ciliate free portion
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  • hirsute (mostly distally), branches filiform to stout, adaxially continuously stigmatic from bases almost to apices, apices rounded to acute, appendages
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  • usually lobed to dissected, sometimes dentate or entire (usually spiny). Heads mostly homogamous (usually discoid, sometimes disciform or radiant, then peripheral
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  • pistillate flowers mostly pedicellate, rarely sessile; bracts subtending pedicels, lanceolate, shorter than pedicels, apex obtuse to acute; pedicels ascending
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  • cm (glabrous or hairy, often glanddotted). Stems erect to pendent. Leaves mostly cauline; often proximally opposite, distally alternate; petiolate or sessile;
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  • usually 3-nerved (1-nerved in H. eggertii, H. smithii, and H. maximiliani), mostly deltate, lance-linear, lanceolate, lanceovate, linear, or ovate, bases cordate
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  • spongy, margin united only at base; seeds mostly less than 2.5 mm wide, usually distinctly dimorphic, mostly small and glossy black, but also some larger
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  • base distal to articulations (Eriogonum); perianth accrescent in fruit, mostly white to red, yellow, light green, greenish white, maroon, or purple, urceolate
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  • to longer than the adjacent lemmas, mostly membranous, scarious distally, 1-11-veined, apices usually rounded to acute; florets laterally or dorsally compressed;
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  • shrubs, 1–200 cm. Leaves basal, basal and cauline, or mostly cauline; mostly opposite (Lasthenia) or mostly alternate; usually sessile, sometimes obscurely petiolate;
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  • lanceolate to linear; margins entire to dentate to lacerate, apex rounded or acute; veins free, arranged like ribs of fan or pinnate. Sporophores normally 1
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  • perennials, subshrubs, shrubs, or trees. Leaves usually cauline, sometimes mostly basal; alternate [opposite, whorled]; usually petiolate, sometimes sessile;
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  • apices usually acute, sometimes obtuse to ± truncate. Receptacles flat to convex or ovoid, foveolate, epaleate. Ray-florets 0. Disc-florets mostly 20–100+, (functionally)
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  • Pollen cones in dense, spikelike cluster around base of current-years growth, mostly ovoid to cylindric-conic, tan to yellow, red, blue, or lavender. Seed-cones
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  • filiform to narrowly oblanceolate (mostly adaxially sulcate to concave), 10–70 × 0.3–10 mm, midnerves mostly evident, apices acute, faces glabrous or tomentose
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  • aporose or in hemiisophyllous forms porose, 0–2-septate, mostly resorbed on interior surface and mostly entire on exterior surface. Branches dimorphic, spreading
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  • Annuals, perennials, subshrubs, or shrubs, (12–) 30–120 (–200) cm. Stems mostly erect, often much branched (sometimes virgate, often striate). Leaves cauline;
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  • branched proximal to arrays of heads (from caudices or rhizomes). Leaves mostly cauline; usually opposite (rarely whorled, distal sometimes alternate);
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  • usually trigonous, wiry to stout. Leaves basal and cauline, polystichous, mostly 3-ranked; sheaths open apically, glabrous; ligules present or absent; blades
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  • wintergreen. Winter buds sessile, slender, terete, apex acute; scales several, imbricate, smooth. Leaves mostly on short-shoots, nearly 2-ranked. Leaf-blade ovate
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  • 7, 8, 9, 10 (polyploidy widespread in the genus). Almost worldwide, but mostly in temperate regions of both hemispheres, some taxa occur in many regions
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  • and cauline; petiolate (at least basal, petioles ± winged); basal blades mostly elliptic, ovate, or lanceolate to linear, or spatulate to oblanceolate,
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  • perennials, subshrubs, or shrubs, (0.5–) 1–250 cm. Leaves mostly basal, or basal and cauline, or mostly cauline; opposite and/or alternate; usually sessile,
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  • sometimes fringed at base, usually covering most of capsule, fugacious. Spores mostly spheric, smooth to papillose. Worldwide Genera 50–52, species ca. 900 (17
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  • simple or branched, terete to ellipsoid, angular or grooved. Leaves mostly connate, mostly sessile, not congested at or near base of flowering-stem; blade
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  • proximally or in leaf-axils). Leaves usually basal and cauline; sessile; blades mostly oblong or lanceolate to obovate, oblanceolate, or spatulate (often pinnately
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  • incurved and variously twisted or contorted when dry; costate; apex broadly acute to rounded, mucronate to hair-pointed; margins plane to weakly recurved or
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  • Perennials, 2–20 (–30+) dm (rhizomatous or not). Leaves usually mostly cauline (rarely mostly basal or basal and cauline); sessile or petiolate; blades ovate
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  • absent, central strand usually present; paraphyllia absent; pseudoparaphyllia acute to acuminate, first leaf pointed downward, second and third situated at 120°
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  • densely hairy (both faces, broadly lanceolate, mostly entire, the proximal lobed; w North America, mostly inland grasslands). Artemisia douglasiana 20 Leaves
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  • sessile; blades mostly linear to oblanceolate or spatulate, bases cuneate to ± cordate, margins entire, sometimes sinuate, abaxial faces mostly white or gray
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  • margins entire to spinose-dentate, apex of lobe acute or acuminate to widely rounded; primary venation mostly palmate, midrib with 1 vein. Flowers floating
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  • or hairy, often gland-dotted and/or resinous. Leaves basal and cauline or mostly cauline; alternate; petiolate (proximal) or sessile (distal); cauline blades
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  • crenulate, occasionally 2-stratose in patches or entirely; apex narrowly acute to rounded, occasionally fragile or caducous; costa ending several cells
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  • decumbent to ascending or erect (leafy or subscapiform, often red-tinged), mostly simple. Leaves basal and cauline; alternate; basal usually short-petiolate
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  • hastate, or cuneate, margins entire, dentate, sinuate, or serrate, apex acute to acuminate or obtuse, occasionally lobed. Inflorescences spicate and terminal
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  • (3) -veined, glabrous, usually mostly smooth, vein (s) often scabrous to scabridulous, backs keeled or rounded, apices acute to acuminate or awn-tipped; lower
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  • pistillate, or staminate. Proximal pistillate scales with apex obtuse to acute or cuspidate. Perigynia spreading, at least the proximal, veined on abaxial
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  • Leaves basal, basal and cauline, or cauline; petiolate or sessile; blades mostly elliptic, lanceolate, oblanceolate, oblong, or spatulate, margins entire
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  • or monopodial, sometimes branching. Leaves mostly many ranked in rosettes, sometimes in loose spirals, mostly grasslike; blade linear to linear-triangular
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  • entire to variously split; blade 1-veined, threadlike to linear, mostly succulent, apex acute to acuminate. Inflorescences terminal cymes, branching symmetrically
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  • cespitose, stoloniferous, or rhizomatous. Culms 1-80 cm. Leaves usually mostly basal; sheaths open; ligules of hairs, membranous, or membranous and ciliate
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  • linear-lanceolate to cuneate-oblanceolate, 11–35 × 2–6 imm, acute, not flagged (apices acute), faces gray-pubescent. Heads 3–25 in corymbiform to paniculiform
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  • folded), margins entire, sometimes hirtellous to ciliate (apices usually acute, sometimes apiculate or spinulose), faces glabrous or hairy, sometimes gland-dotted
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  • persistent, 8–13 or 21–34 in 2 series (spreading to erect in fruit, distinct, mostly lance-linear, subequal, floccose-tomentose). Receptacles flat to convex
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  • by the peduncle. Flowers protandrous, erect or recurved, showy; perianth mostly yellow, infrequently whitish or reddish, funnelform to tubular; tepals 6
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  • bases to apices, apices rounded to acute, appendages essentially none. Cypselae usually monomorphic within heads, mostly ellipsoid, obovoid, or ovoid, ± terete
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  • Juncus leiospermus 5 Flowers mostly several per culm; bracts acute to acuminate. > 6 5 Flowers uniformly solitary; bracts acute to truncate or absent. > 9
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  • 2–11 mm, apex acute. Pedicels erect, not bent in fruit, 1–5 (–17) mm. Flowers: calyx 3–7 × 2–7 mm; petals connate 1–3 (–4.5) mm, mostly pale-yellow, straw
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  • subshrubs, or shrubs [trees], mostly 20–220 cm. Stems usually erect, rarely scandent, sparsely to densely branched. Leaves cauline; mostly opposite (distal sometimes
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  • Leaves usually congested at or near base of flowering-stems, usually connate, mostly sessile; blade 1-veined, needlelike or filiform to subulate or narrowly
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  • usually glabrous, sometimes stipitate-glandular (mostly distally). Leaves basal and cauline or mostly cauline; basal usually petiolate (petioles usually
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  • whorled, distally alternate; petiolate (at least basal) or sessile; blades mostly lance-linear, oblanceolate, ovate, or spatulate, margins entire, lobed,
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  • leaves); blade 1–5-veined, linear to obovate or spatulate, herbaceous, apex acute to obtuse. Inflorescences terminal or sometimes axillary, simple or branched
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  • venation pinnate, surfaces glabrous or hairy. Inflorescences mostly terminal or mostly axillary, (2–) 3–1000+-flowered, panicles or corymbiform or racemiform
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  • to Georgia. Quercus arkansana 51 Apex of leaf blade acute or obtuse, margins always with 3–4 acute lobes; North Carolina to Maine. Quercus ilicifolia 52
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  • lower glumes minute to almost equaling the spikelets, 1-9-veined, truncate, acute, or acuminate; upper glumes slightly shorter to much longer than the spikelets
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  • alternating in 2 whorls of 3, erect, incurved, or divergent; filaments mostly short, basally expanded; anthers 2-locular, ± equaling or longer than filaments
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  • 7–2 mm, subequal, mostly chartaceous, sometimes herbaceous-tipped, midnerves mostly evident, (margins narrowly membranous, entire, mostly tomentulose, rarely
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  • Stems ascending to erect or prostrate, simple or branched, ± terete. Leaves mostly connate proximally, petiolate (M. cumberlandensis, M. godfreyi proximal
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  • lanceolate, adaxially continuously stigmatic from bases nearly to apices, apices acute, appendages essentially none. Cypselae ± monomorphic within heads, columnar
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  • lunate blotch adaxially, lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, base tapered, acute, rounded, or cordate, margins entire. Inflorescences terminal or terminal
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  • obtuse to abruptly acute-apiculate; stamen filaments glabrous or bearded. > 4 4 Leaves oblong-elliptic to lanceolate-elliptic, mostly 7–15 cm; peduncle
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