series, distinct, (usually green to whitish green, rarely stramineous) ovate to lanceolate, unequal, margins and apices (usually green or white, rarely dark-brown
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glandular; usually short-rhizomatous, sometimes stoloniferous. Stems 1–many, prostrate to erect, sometimes rooting at nodes, usually ± green, sometimes
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monoecious], usually glabrous, often resinous; bases woody, rarely rhizomatous). Stems (1–20+) usually erect or ascending, rarely prostrate (usually striate-angled
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pistillate elongated in fruit. Staminate flowers: sepals 3–5, usually green, sometimes reddish green, not petaloid, valvate, distinct; petals 0; nectary absent
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subterranean, usually green and photosynthetic, some without chlorophyll and saprophytic. Roots subterranean or aerial, tuberoid or stolonoid, usually with spongy
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branched (bark typically tan to reddish-brown, becoming gray, twigs usually green to gray or yellowish), glabrous or sparsely to densely hairy (often tomentose)
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circinate in bud, monomorphic or dimorphic. Petiole usually not articulate to stem, scales usually persistent at base, in cross-section with 2–many roundish
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ovary superior, usually green, 3-locular or 6-locular with false septa, 6-lobed; style white to dark green, often thick; stigmas usually 3, sometimes 1
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by ± leaflike bract. Flowers often fragrant, showy; sepals usually persistent, usually green or purplish; petals dark red to purplish, almost black, or
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± foliaceous, bases usually indurate, green zones usually diamond-shaped, sometimes lanceolate or apices foliaceous (faces usually hairy, sometimes glabrous
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5 mm, usually green, rarely purplish; sepals 5, green, sometimes reddish at tips; petals 5 (absent or 1–5 in M. apetala, M. subapetala), usually white
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adnate 1/2–5/6 to ovary, free from ovary 0.7–3 mm, usually green, sometimes purple; sepals 5, green to purple; petals 5, white (sometimes with pink veins
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279. Plants hermaphroditic or unisexual. Leaves usually green to bluish green, sometimes bright green, sometimes glaucous, thin but ± stout (slightly thicker
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(opaque or hyaline, dull or shiny; stereomes usually green, usually sessile-glandular distally), unequal, usually chartaceous toward tips. Receptacles flat
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on page 459. Plants annual; hirsute, hairs papillose-based, usually yellow-green to green, sometimes purplish. Culms 8-100 cm tall, about 1 mm thick, erect
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Shrubs or trees [lianas], evergreen, usually glabrous. Leaves decussate [whorled], estipulate; petiole usually present; blade margins entire; glandular
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Pedicels 5–20 mm. Flowers: sepals usually green, sometimes reddish apically or throughout, ovate, 2–2.8 mm, apex usually acuminate, surfaces puberulent;
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cespitose, green to pale olive when dry, to 4.3 dm, not glaucous; rhizomes scarcely discernable. Stems simple, 0.8–2 mm wide, glabrous, margins usually entire
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not persistent in fibrous tufts. Inflorescences borne singly; spathes usually green, glabrous, keels entire to denticulate; outer 14–55 (–65) mm, 13–16 mm
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pleiochasia (pleiochasial bracts) opposite or whorled, usually wholly green or with paler green, white, pink, or red at base, sometimes wholly white, pink
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Mentioned on page 453. Plants 5–70 cm. Stems erect, green, tan, or reddish to dark-brown, usually glabrous or villous, rarely tomentose. Leaves: basal
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thickened proximally; pedicel usually ascending in fruit, occasionally perpendicular to stem, 3–25 mm, bracts usually green, sometimes white, 5–25 mm. Capsules
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by pedicel bract; sepals usually green [magenta], often less than half size of petals; petals sharply reflexed or not, green or brightly colored, 4–15
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often more developed on sepals, basal, green, usually hidden but occasionally exposed and forming visible green star at adaxial base of perianth; sepals
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revolute), faces bicolor, abaxial usually silvery, tomentose, adaxial usually green, glabrate or glabrous. Heads disciform, usually in terminal clusters (subtended
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rachises hispid and villous; bristles 1-3, 5-10 mm, antrorsely scabrous, usually green, rarely purple. Spikelets 1.8-2.2 mm. Lower glumes about as long as the
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North America Association Stems usually green, sometimes purple or black, sparsely pubescent. Leaf-blades green to light green, surfaces sparsely pubescent
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Copyright: Flora of North America Association Leaves: blades usually green, epidermal gas pockets usually absent; basal leaf-rosettes suberect to flattened, 2–30
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ferruginous; juvenile blade (usually yellowish green), hairs usually white, rarely ferruginous. Catkins flowering as leaves emerge, usually from lateral buds (sometimes
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Panicles 10–60-flowered. Sepals abaxially cream to greenish, adaxially usually green and marked with red, rarely mostly red, forming perianths 10–16 × 13–16
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stem branch points; root hairs to 1 cm, emerging from root cap. Stems usually not green, with extensive subdichotomous branching, prostrate and reniform or
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dissimilar, abaxial usually green, sometimes silvery white, cottony hairs absent, adaxial green, not glaucous, long hairs usually ± stiff, sometimes weak
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Inflorescences terminal, drooping or nodding, usually red, purple, or white, less commonly green, silvery green, or yellow, usually much-branched at base, leafless at
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Inflorescences borne singly; spathes usually green or bronze, rarely with purplish margins, glabrous, keels usually denticulate; outer 36–76 mm, 12–46 mm
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54–130+, apex usually acuminate to acute, rarely obtuse, abaxial surface pale green, puberulent, especially on veins, adaxial surface dark green, dull, puberulent
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autotrophic, at least partly green. Rhizomes absent. Roots filiform. Stems usually unbranched, green. Leaves cauline, sometimes basal, green, purplish, or pale,
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white to cream, greenish white, or yellowish green, or yellowish, usually green-throated and faintly green-lined, oblong-ovate to ovatelanceolate, 3–7 mm
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0.5–3 cm. Stems ascending or prostrate, branched. Leaves usually green, sometimes reddish green; stipules ovatelanceolate, 1 mm, margins irregularly toothed
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Annuals (sometimes persisting, usually monocarpic) [perennials], mostly 20–100 cm (taprooted; often glaucous). Stems usually 1, erect or lax (branched throughout
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5–10 cm. Stems ascending or prostrate, branched. Leaves usually green, sometimes reddish green; stipules triangular, 0.5–0.6 mm, margins entire, apex acute;
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pistillate clusters, erect or with reflexed or nodding tips, usually green to silvery green. Bracts of pistillate flowers lanceolate to ovatelanceolate
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acute, abaxial surface usually pale green, sometimes gray-green, sometimes glaucous, glabrate to hirtellous, adaxial surface dark green, villosulous, especially
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rarely obtuse, abaxial surfaces pale green, glabrous, rarely pubescent, eglandular or glandular, adaxial usually green, dull, rarely slightly lustrous, glabrous
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Treatment on page 483. Mentioned on page 482. Leaf-blades pale green abaxially, usually deep green adaxially, abaxial surface densely puberulent with scattered
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Leaves: petiole spreading-hairy; leaflet blade usually dark green to slightly bluish green, sometimes bright green, not glaucous, terminal leaflets oblong-ovate
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spreading; twigs ± straight, new growth green to reddish, pubescent or glabrous, 1-year old usually golden green to tan, sometimes deep reddish-brown or
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FNA Volume 28. Treatment on page 259. Mentioned on page 590. Plants usually large, green to golden. Stems creeping, slender, inconspicuous, sympodial, secondary
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mm wide. Inflorescences usually less than 15 cm, proximal internodes usually less than 100 mm; peduncles of lateral spikes usually included or exserted less
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mm wide. Flowers: sepals usually 5, green, yellow, or red (rarely white or abaxially green to green-yellow and adaxially green or yellow and tinged red)
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campanulate. Phyllaries usually green, sometimes medially rose-purple, often purple-black spotted and/or tipped, faces usually glabrous, sometimes proximally
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obtuse, faces usually glabrous, rarely puberulent, eglandular; cauline sessile, blades lanceolate, 10–120 × 5–30 mm, bases clasping. Heads usually borne singly
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ascending to erect, rarely delicate or spreading, usually green or red-purple, rarely bluish-green, often branching at the base. Panicle branches spreading;
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spur, distally extended or not, usually smooth, apex cuspidate, truncate, or acute, with or without seeds, proximally usually rugose-reticulate and indehiscent
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glabrous, usually purple over less than 1/2 their surface, purple or green proximally, if green, often with a purple band about midlength, usually green or pale
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1–2.2 × 1.2–2.1 mm, glabrous; sepals usually erect, sometimes spreading, usually green, rarely yellow, usually purple-spotted throughout or distally,
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pendent. Flowers: floral-tube 1–3 mm; sepals reflexed together to 1 side, usually green, sparsely to densely puberulent inside, without longer, spreading hairs;
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of current season yellow-green or reddish green, terete to slightly angled, glabrous or hairy in lines. Leaf-blades usually green, broadly elliptic to ovate
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Copyright: Flora of North America Association Stems 90-150 cm; base usually green, glabrous. Leaves cauline, 17-30 at anthesis; petiole 0.2-8 cm. Leaf-blade
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not persistent in fibrous tufts. Inflorescences borne singly; spathes usually green, glabrous, keels entire; outer 13–27 mm, equaling or 3 mm longer than
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pale green or faintly to strongly reddish tinged, adaxial surface usually reddish-mottled or with conspicuous reddish spot, both surfaces usually sparsely
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1, narrowly columnar; stigma 1, 3-lobed; staminodes 3. Fruits pepos, usually green with white streaks or lines, sometimes red to scarlet at maturity, broadly
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gray, or green, glabrous or densely hairy. Leaves deciduous or semideciduous, alternate; petiole 6–23 mm; blade usually pale green abaxially, green to bluish
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to ascending). Stems usually yellowish green (usually not branched). Basal leaves: petioles 0–15 cm; blades (3-) or 5-nerved, usually linear or lanceolate
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summit; ligules as wide as long, 2–8 mm; blades usually gray-green, flat to channeled, 5–15 cm × 1–2 mm, usually shorter than culms. Inflorescences erect, 1–2
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176, 186, 659. Plants large, scattered individuals or open turfs, usually pale green. Leaves shrunken to imbricate or somewhat contorted when dry, erect-spreading
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internodes glabrous, usually green, in cultivars golden yellow, or with yellow and green stripes, lustrous; nodal ridges usually prominent (scarcely discernible
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not persistent in fibrous tufts. Inflorescences borne singly; spathes usually green, obviously wider than supporting branch, glabrous, keels denticulate
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Mentioned on page 4, 170. Plants usually vines, sometimes shrublike in Cucurbita, or perennial [annual] herbs (Melothria), usually monoecious or dioecious, rarely
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involucrate whorl, usually green with white, pink, or red at base, occasionally distal bracts wholly white, pink, or red, rarely all bracts wholly green, similar
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glabrous, pubescent, or pilose; collars usually with tufts of hair at the sides; blades 0.8-2 mm wide, usually erect or ascending, adaxial surfaces pilose
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campanulate, 3–5.3 mm. Phyllaries often ± yellow basally, outer (at least) usually green-tipped, outer ovate, inner oblong, apices obtuse or broadly acute. Ray-florets
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symmetrically keeled, usually green or green tinged with purple, 3-4-veined, veins scabridulous, scabrous, or with hairs to 0.3 mm, usually glabrous elsewhere
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Treatment on page 311. Plants medium to large, usually dark green or black with distal portions green. Stems elongate, rarely short, freely branching
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Copyright: Flora of North America Association Pepos solid ivory or green-and-white-striped but usually not yellow or orange, rind smooth, flesh almost always bitter
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A. Reznicek Copyright: Flora of North America Association Leaves usually bright green; widest blade 5.3–8.3 mm wide. Longest staminate spike 6–20 (–23)
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mucro. Inflorescences mostly terminal, usually with spikes at distal axils, erect and rigid, green to silvery green, occasionally tinged red, leafless at
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spatulate, oblanceolate, or cuneate, 20–40 mm, faces usually gray-pubescent, adaxial sometimes green-glabrous. Cauline leaves 8–36 mm. Heads 6–20. Involucres:
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Plants perennial. Stems erect, green or gray-green, 1.5–4 (–10) dm, white to yellow-canescent. Leaf-blades gray to green, ovate, unlobed or weakly 3–5-lobed
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Plants small to medium-sized, in thin to dense mats, usually pale green to yellowish, sometimes dark green, often shiny. Stems creeping, freely branched, irregularly
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3–4 (–5) per fertile culm, 7–22 cm × 2–4 mm. Inflorescences erect, usually dense, green, gold, or dark-brown, 1.8–3 cm8–14 mm; proximal internode 2–3 (–5)
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in compact, usually round-topped arrays 6–35% of plant heights. Involucres obconic, 4–6 mm. Phyllaries yellowish at bases, usually green-tipped, outer
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glomerate), usually in flat-topped to slightly rounded, arrays (25–) 35–60% of plant heights. Involucres obconic, (4–) 4.5–6.2 mm. Phyllaries usually green-tipped
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base rounded, margins membranous, abaxial surfaces of aerial leaves usually green, of submerged leaves often red or purple. Inflorescences terminal racemes
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fruit, 18–21 mm, glandular-pubescent, lobes subequal, apex acute, ribs usually green, intercostal areas whitish. Corollas: throat magenta, abaxial lip magenta
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bracteoles absent. Flowers: sepals 4, calyx entirely green or more often conspicuously colored distally, usually as in bracts, contrasting with bracts in a few
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(roots fibrous). Herbage usually hairy (hairs spreading to ascending, to 2 mm), sometimes glabrous. Stems usually brownish green. Basal leaves: petioles
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species with erect capsules usually straight. Seta redbrown, usually dark redbrown with age, rarely cherry red or orangish, usually long (5–20 times capsule
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adventitious along stems. Stems segmented or unsegmented, usually bright green or bluish green to purplish, slender cylindric [flattened and leaflike in
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turfs, red, pink, green, or yellow-green. Stems 0.5–3 cm, fertile stems comose, innovations evenly foliate. Leaves shiny yellow-green to red or pink, crowded
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cylindric, 4–13 mm diam. Phyllaries 10–55 in 4–8 series, erect or recurved (green to purple), 1-nerved (flat), oblong, ovate, or lanceolate, unequal, herbaceous
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perennial. Stems ascending to decumbent, green to gray-green, 1–3 (–5) dm, canescent. Leaf-blades green to gray-green, oblong-ovate to ovatelanceolate, unlobed
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lobed or entire. Bracts usually green with prominent white base conspicuously extending outwards from midvein, rarely green, usually obovate, rarely lanceolate
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lanceolate, to 17 cm, margins usually deeply lobed to dentate, rarely entire. Bracts usually green with prominent white base usually conspicuously extending
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colored, most often green or glaucous, glabrous to densely hairy, sometimes pilose or glandular (not verrucose). Leaf-blades usually pale green or glaucous abaxially
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margins deeply to shallowly lobed or entire. Bracts usually green with white base, occasionally green, obovate to ovate, 7.1–11.3 × 3–6.2 mm, width 2/5–3/5
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1–15 dm; twigs pale green, glaucous, ± terete, puberulent. Leaves persistent for 1+ years; blade usually pale green abaxially, dark green adaxially, elliptic
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low open turfs, green or rarely pinkish red. Stems 2–4 (–6) cm, fertile stems comose, innovations evenly foliate. Leaves green, yellow-green, or rarely red
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America Association Stems usually unbranched (occasionally 2–3-branched), usually pale green, depressed-spheric to ovoid, usually 3.2–11 (–18) × 3.8–8 (–10)
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lack sori, subsequent leaves with sori). Petiole reddish when young, usually green or straw-colored throughout (occasionally darker) in mature specimens
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persistent, alternate; petiole 2–10 mm; blade usually dull green, sometimes reddish-brown, abaxially, glossy to dull green adaxially, broadly elliptic to oblong
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