lenticular to elliptic in cross section. Such cypselae are said to be compressed (or laterally flattened) if the longer axis of the cross section is ±
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infrequently unisexual or mixed, usually laterally compressed or not compressed, occasionally dorsally compressed, with 1-30 sexual florets, distal floret (s)
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occasionally below the florets. Spikelets usually dorsally compressed, varying to terete or laterally compressed, with 2 (3) florets, lower florets staminate, sterile
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distal florets; florets 2 (-4), usually dorsally compressed, sometimes terete or laterally compressed; lower florets sterile or staminate, frequently reduced
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within heads, usually ± columnar to prismatic and 5-ribbed, sometimes compressed and 2-ribbed, rarely beaked, bodies smooth, muricate, ribbed, or rugulose
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stout, terete or weakly to strongly compressed; nodes 0-5, exserted. Sheaths terete or weakly to strongly compressed, closed only at the base or up to full
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triangular to circular and laterally compressed or ovoid to globose, rarely oblong and dorsiventrally compressed (Holosteum); embryo usually peripheral
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usually reniform and laterally compressed to globose, sometimes oblong or shield-shaped and dorsiventrally compressed; embryo peripheral and curved, or
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sometimes dimorphic within heads, usually ± columnar to prismatic, sometimes compressed, obcompressed, or flattened, sometimes ± beaked, bodies smooth, rugose
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within heads, ± clavate, columnar, ellipsoid, fusiform, or prismatic, often compressed, obcompressed, or flattened, often beaked or apically tapered, bodies
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the florets, sometimes below the glumes. Spikelets 0.7-50 mm, laterally compressed, sometimes weakly so, sometimes viviparous, usually with 2-22 florets
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short, sometimes at the base of the branches. Spikelets usually laterally compressed, with 1-60 florets, sterile or reduced florets, if present, usually distal
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valves strongly compressed parallel to the septum) > 67 66 Silicles not compressed or slightly to strongly angustiseptate (the valves compressed perpendicular
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usually obovoid or columnar to prismatic, sometimes 3-angled or winged, or compressed or obcompressed (then often winged); pappi usually 0 (cypselar wall tissues
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triangular to globose and often laterally compressed, sometimes shield-shaped or oblong and dorsiventrally compressed, horizontal wing sometimes present, spongy
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obpyramidal or prismatic (3–4-angled), or terete to ovoid, or strongly compressed or flattened and ± orbiculate to obovate or cuneate (lengths seldom more
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of the panicle branches. Spikelets usually bisexual, usually laterally compressed, with 1-60 florets, distal florets often reduced. Glumes usually 2, shorter
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rachises, sometimes at the inflorescence bases. Spikelets usually laterally compressed, sometimes terete, with 1-16 bisexual florets, the distal (or only) floret
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beneath each floret. Spikelets 5-80 mm, not viviparous, terete to laterally compressed, with 3-30 bisexual florets, distal florets sometimes reduced; rachillas
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calluses blunt, usually terete or slightly laterally compressed, sometimes slightly dorsally compressed, glabrous or hairy, hairs often concentrated in 1
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adventitious. Stems (culms) usually trigonous, occasionally terete, rarely compressed, usually solid, rarely hollow or septate. Leaves basal and/or cauline
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biconvex or sometimes less than 1/3 of achenes compressed trigonous, smooth; tubercles strongly compressed dorsiventrally, in cross section much thinner
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regular, salverform to tubular-funnelform, funnelform, campanulate, or compressed; stamens (2–) 4, adnate to corolla, didynamous [both pairs of equal length
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Spikelets usually with 1 floret, sometimes with 2-6 florets, laterally compressed to terete; rachillas not prolonged beyond the base of the floret in spikelets
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obovoid to terete, or obpyramidal, sometimes compressed or obcompressed, glabrous, hairy, or papillate (compressed, callous-margined, and ciliolate in Eatonella
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glumes. Spikelets 2.5-60 mm, not viviparous, slightly to strongly laterally compressed, with 1-30 florets, proximal florets bisexual, distal 1-3 florets usually
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or weakly compressed; nodes terete or slightly compressed. Sheaths closed from 1/7 their length to their entire length, terete to compressed, smooth or
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Spikelets: scales to 76, distichous, each subtending flower, cylindric to compressed, borne spicately or digitately at ends of rays (occasionally proliferous)
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scales usually evident, without tubers. Culms terete to angled, sometimes compressed, to 100 cm × 5 mm. Leaves: distal leaf-sheaths persistent, rarely disintegrating
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at maturity. Spikelets 1-8 mm, usually dorsally compressed, some¬times subterete or laterally compressed, unawned. Glumes usually unequal, herbaceous, glabrous
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2 lines. Cypselae subterete, or obpyramidal and 4-angled, or strongly compressed and linear-oblanceolate to oblong-oblique, glabrous or hairy; pappi 0
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bract), lodicules, and reproductive organs, often laterally or dorsally compressed, sometimes round in cross-section; lemmas usually with an odd number of
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(yellow to brown); stigmatic papillae in 2 lines. Cypselae obcompressed, compressed, or terete, often obpyramidal, clavate, or fusiform, glabrous or hairy
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dark or pale; stigmatic papillae usually continuous. Cypselae often ± compressed, flattened, biconvex, clavate, columnar, obovoid, obpyramidal, or prismatic
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recurved, or reflexed. Cypselae cylindric to obovoid or oblong, sometimes ± compressed, 2–6-nerved, glabrous or ± strigillose. x = 7, 8. North America, Mexico
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(or subterranean in Romulea), simple or branched, terete or variously compressed, angled or winged. Leaves basal and cauline, distichous; proximal 2–3
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obovoid, or ovoid, sometimes rounded-prismatic, terete, 4–5-angled, or ± compressed, rarely beaked, bodies usually smooth, sometimes rugose or 10-nerved or
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mm, lengths 3-5 times widths, terete to weakly laterally compressed or distinctly compressed, sometimes bulbiferous; florets (2) 3-5 (10), usually normal
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caudexlike. Culms sometimes solitary, terete, 3–5-angled or more, or strongly compressed in cross-section, spongy with internal air cavities and incomplete transverse
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triangular, pyriform, or reniform to circular, subglobose or laterally compressed to angular (Polycarpon); embryo peripheral, curved or rarely annular to
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below the spikelets, not occurring in cultivated taxa. Spikelets laterally compressed or terete, with 1 bisexual or unisexual floret, sometimes with 2 sterile
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monomorphic within heads, usually columnar to fusiform, sometimes prismatic or compressed to flattened, rarely, if ever, beaked, bodies often 10-ribbed or (4–)
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usually concealing the florets (excluding the awns), rounded or dorsally compressed, usually tougher than the lemmas; lower florets in bisexual or pistillate
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not disarticulating. Spikelets 1-27 mm long, 0.5-9 mm wide, laterally compressed, with (1) 2-60 florets; disarticulation below the fertile florets, sometimes
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than the florets, usually acute or acuminate; florets terete or laterally compressed, with well-developed calluses; lemmas 1-veined or 3-veined, more or less
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usually monomorphic within heads, usually ± columnar to prismatic, seldom compressed, obcompressed, or flattened, rarely, if ever, beaked, bodies usually ribbed
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terete or weakly compressed; nodes terete or weakly compressed. Sheaths closed for (1/6) 1/4 – 3/5 their length, terete to slightly compressed, smooth or sparsely
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to tan or brown to black, ovoid to reniform, not or slightly laterally compressed; embryo peripheral or central, curved or straight. x = 7, 8, 9. s North
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(hypogeous in Okenia), accessory, radially symmetric or dorsiventrally compressed anthocarps, consisting of achene or utricle enclosed in fleshy, leathery
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4–5-angled, sometimes clavate, columnar, cylindric, or fusiform, sometimes compressed and ± linear (e.g., Chaenactis, Hulsea) or obcompressed (e.g., Arnica
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present, creeping or ascending and caudexlike, 0.2–1 mm thick. Culms rarely compressed, 0.1–0.75 mm wide. Leaves: distal leaf-sheaths persistent or disintegrating
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Plants annual or perennial; usually cespitose. Culms usually erect, not compressed. Sheaths not keeled; ligules of hairs, or membranous and, usually, ciliate;
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ovary 1-locular; placentae parietal; style threadlike, rigid; stigma 1, compressed, with 2 lobes or apical horns, and/or 2-8 papillar stigmatic surfaces
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terminal few-flowered spikes. Fruits nuts enclosed in husks, compressed or not compressed, husks completely or partially dehiscing, sutures smooth or winged;
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sometimes reflexed or drooping. Spikelets 5-70 mm, terete to laterally compressed, with 3-30 florets; disarticulation above the glumes, beneath the florets
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olivaceous. Caryopses elongate, fusiform or elliptic, slightly dorsally compressed. Cleistogamous panicles sometimes present in the axils of the lower cauline
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stigmatic lines). Cypselae narrowly obconic to cylindric, sometimes somewhat compressed, ribs usually 8–10 (either darker and sometimes translucent or lighter
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Cypselae usually monomorphic within heads, mostly ovoid to obovoid and compressed or obcompressed, not beaked or apically attenuate, bodies smooth or ±
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rhizomatous or not. Culms sometimes solitary, scapose, stiff or flaccid, terete, compressed, or 3–5-angled, coarse or fine. Leaves basal, distichous or polystichous;
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[fimbriate]. Fruits baccate or capsular. Seeds (1–) 3–ca. 200, arillate, usually compressed, surface usually pitted to reticulate or grooved. Nearly worldwide, primarily
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monomorphic within heads, columnar to clavate, fusiform, or prismatic, sometimes compressed, not beaked, bodies smooth, nerved, or ribbed (glabrous or hirsutulous
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bilaterally or radially symmetric, tubular, sometimes inflated and sagittally compressed with abaxial lobes characteristically upcurving and closing throat or
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mostly 3–4 mm wide; fruit body compressed or tumid, mostly 2–2.5(–3) mm, tubercle more narrowly triangular to subulate, compressed or shallowly biconvex, 0.5–1
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mainly extravaginal. Culms 2-120 cm, terete or somewhat compressed; nodes terete or weakly compressed. Sheaths usually closed for 1/2-7/8 their length, sometimes
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seldom cultivated > 16 16 Bracts (or bractlike perianth segments) dorsally compressed, usually triangular, smooth, tuberculate, vertically keeled, or winged;
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Cypselae cylindric to obovoid or oblong, sometimes fusiform, sometimes ± compressed, (5–) 6–10-nerved, usually densely strigillose. x = 5, 4. North America
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3-valved, exserted beyond calyx or not. Seeds 1–6 per capsule, ovoid, often compressed laterally, with or without easily separating membranous coat. x = 9 or
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Volume 24. Treatment on page 73. Plants perennial. Sheaths not or weakly compressed, midvein often conspicuous distally. Panicles 0.8-30 cm wide; branches
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almost woody at the base, often branching from the lower nodes. Sheaths not compressed. Panicles usually lax and diffuse; pedicels divergent. Spikelets ellipsoid
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muricate, tuberculate, or furrowed, indehiscent or dehiscent. Seeds mostly compressed, sometimes winged, arillate in Coccinia, Ibervillea, Momordica, and Tumamoca
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exceeding the upper leaves, exserted. Spikelets 4-10 (13) mm, laterally compressed, with 4-11 (16) florets, more than 1 floret bisexual; sterile florets
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± cylindric, laterally compressed, edge borne toward rachilla. Worldwide Species ca. 100 (11 in the flora). Laterally compressed, biconvex achenes, a feature
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Volume 24. Treatment on page 81. Plants perennial, rarely annual. Sheaths compressed, usually at least weakly keeled. Inflorescences 0.5-5 cm wide if the branches
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laterally compressed, with 3-12 florets. Lower glumes 3-7 (9) -veined; upper glumes 5-9 (11) -veined; lemmas lanceolate, laterally compressed, strongly
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5-5 times widths, narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, subterete to fairly compressed, somtimes bulbiferous; florets 2-5 (6), normal or bulb-forming. Glumes
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of bracteoles, seed vertical; fruiting bracteoles samaralike, strongly compressed, oval to orbicular or ovate; plants widespread in North America [20a.1
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rounded, truncate to slightly emarginate; anthers 3. Caryopses laterally compressed; hila large, punctate, basal; embryos 3/4 or more as long as the caryopses
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spreading, usually glabrous, scabrous. Spikelets pedicellate, laterally compressed, with 1-11 (17) florets, distal florets reduced; disarticulation above
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terete or slightly compressed; nodes terete or slightly compressed. Sheaths closed for 1/10 – 1/5 their length, terete or slightly compressed, smooth or sparsely
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1-locular; achene body thick-lenticular or asymmetrically thick-lenticular to compressed-globose, 1.2-2 times as wide as thick, not prolonged beyond seed; wall
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distinct; ovules 1; styles terminal. Fruits without longitudinal ribs, compressed, abaxially keeled or not, abaxial wings often present, lateral wing often
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distinct from achene in color, texture and form, not dorsoventrally greatly compressed. North America to South America, West Indies, Eurasia, Hawaii, Australia
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pseudointravaginal, sometimes mainly extravaginal. Culms 20-126 cm, terete or weakly compressed. Sheaths closed for (1/20) 1/3 to about their full length, terete or weakly
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above the glumes and between the florets. Spikelets 4-50 mm, laterally compressed, with 2-many florets, lower 1-4 florets sterile. Glumes 2, subequal, shorter
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Plants perennial; usually cespitose, often from scaly rhizomes. Culms often compressed. Sheaths often keeled; ligules membranous, papery, often erose, usually
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columnar, cylindric, ellipsoid, or fusiform, sometimes ± prismatic, sometimes compressed or flattened, not beaked, bodies smooth or ribbed (glabrous or ± hirsutulous
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the branch axes. Spikelets solitary, sessile to pedicellate, laterally compressed, with 2-3 (5) florets, usually only the lowest floret bisexual, rarely
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style-branch appendages blunt, obscure). Cypselae clavate to ± cylindric or compressed, obscurely 8–20-angled, faces scabrous and strigose to densely sericeous
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marginal veins, sessile, obovoid to suborbicular, rounded or somewhat compressed in cross-section, base cuneate to ± rounded, apex tapering or rounded
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equaling throats, lobes 5, deltate (abaxially hairy). Cypselae (brownish) ± compressed, obovate to obcordate (margins usually ± winged, usually ± ciliate, faces
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subsessile or pedicellate, divergent or appressed, ovoid to ellipsoid, dorsally compressed, in 1-2 (4) rows, with 2 florets, lower or upper glumes adjacent to the
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nodes; nodes usually glabrous; internodes hollow or solid. Sheaths open, compressed; auricles absent; ligules usually absent but, if present, of hairs; blades
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5-12 mm, usually subsessile to pedicellate, rarely sessile, laterally compressed, with 2-5 florets, reduced florets sometimes present distally; rachillas
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anther thecae dark; stigmatic papillae 0. Cypselae weakly to strongly compressed, obovoid to ± prismatic (often 4-angled; sometimes each enclosed within
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divergent or reflexed. Spikelets cylindrical and terete or oval and laterally compressed, with 2-16 florets, terminal floret in each spikelet sterile, reduced;
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present or absent; tubers absent; turions present or absent. Stems terete or compressed, nodes occasionally with oil-glands; turions with extremely shortened
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cartilaginous. Styles 3-fid, or 3-fid and 2-fid. Achenes biconvex, sometimes compressed trigonous, sometimes distally constricted into a distinct, thick neck
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racemes. Fruits nuts enclosed in husks, not compressed; husks thick, indehiscent; nuts tan, neither compressed nor angled, grooved, ridged, rugulose, or
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oblique, below the sessile spikelets. Sessile spikelets terete or laterally compressed; calluses usually sharp, setose, hairs white or yellow to brown; glumes
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lanceolate, more or less terete initially, sometimes becoming laterally compressed at anthesis, with (3) 4-14 (16) florets. Lower glumes 1-3-veined; upper
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laterally compressed, sometimes bulbiferous; florets 3-5 (7), normal or sometimes bulb-forming. Calluses terete or slightly dorsally compressed; lemmas 3-6
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usually paniculate, occasionally spicate or racemose. Spikelets laterally compressed, with 1-several bisexual florets or all florets unisexual and the species
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sometimes spikelike. Spikelets pedicellate or sessile, 2.5-10 mm, laterally compressed, stramineous to brown at maturity, with 3 florets, lowest 2 florets staminate
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(1) 3-7-veined, usually exceeding the distal florets; florets laterally compressed; lemmas firmly membranous to coriaceous, 3-9-veined, rounded across the
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Treatment on page 71. Plants perennial. Sheaths not or only slightly compressed, midvein sometimes conspicuous distally. Panicles 12-30 cm wide, usually
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structures: perianth covering utricles at maturity, utricles compressed-spheric or compressed-elliptic; pericarp free or nearly so, membranous. Seeds wedge-shaped;
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ovule 1; style 1, ca. 0.2 mm; stigma capitate or rarely 2-lobed. Utricles compressed, ovoid or obovoid, indehiscence. Seeds 1, reddish-brown, lenticular or
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cordate, those of rays (if present) ± 3-sided, rounded abaxially, of disc compressed (thin or thick walled), 6–18-ribbed, faces silky (hairs antrorsely ascending
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decumbent, not branching above the base, terete or weakly compressed; nodes terete or weakly compressed, 1-2 (3) exposed, proximal node (s) usually not exserted
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subsessile to shortly pedicellate, planoconvex, rounded to acuminate, dorsally compressed, not subtended by bristles or a ringlike callus, solitary or paired (1
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most nodes; pedicels to 2.5 mm. Spikelets terete to slightly laterally compressed, with (3) 5-24 florets, distal florets sometimes reduced, sterile; disarticulation
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aggregate, sessile or stipitate, ovoid to obovoid, weakly to strongly compressed, sides not prominently veined; beak terminal, straight or hooked at tip
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suborbiculate to reniform or obliquely triangular, plump or variously compressed, smooth, reticulate, tuberculate, muriculate-papillate, or rarely with
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cylindric throats, lobes 5, deltate to lanceovate. Cypselae clavate to linear, compressed (lenticular in cross-section), silky-hairy; pappi of 4 (distinct) quadrate
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usually 1-3-veined, acute to acuminate; florets terete or weakly laterally compressed; calluses well-developed, hirsute; lemmas fusiform, 3-veined, convolute
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rudimentary, cross-section dorsiventrally flat to C-shaped or laterally compressed, soft, smooth or margins sometimes distally scabrous or spinulose. Inflorescences
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Cypselae (white to tan or mottled purple-brown) cuneiform to linear, not compressed, smooth or obscurely 5–10-nerved, faces puberulent to pilose; pappi persistent
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contorted, or ± coiled), ± columnar to prismatic, sometimes obcompressed, compressed, or flattened, sometimes ± beaked, bodies usually tuberculate, ridged
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abaxial, 1 adaxial; disc obovoid to cuneate or obcordiform, laterally compressed, margins winged or not, resin ducts present, faces often puberulent; pappi
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to brownish apically). Cypselae stramineous or reddish to dark-brown, ± compressed, mostly oblong or oblanceoloid to ellipsoid, beaks 0, ribs usually 2–4
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cleistogamous. Spikelets 0.8-5.2 mm, not subtended by bristles, dorsally compressed, surfaces unequally convex, apices unawned. Glume apices not or only slightly
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monopodial, unbranched or weakly branched, elongated to thick and fleshy, compressed-shortened, distal end tapered to point or praemorse, apex bearing large
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flowers: appearing bisexual, rarely producing fruit; corolla ± laterally compressed, 8–12 mm, abaxial lip with lobes erect to ± spreading, apex acute, adaxial
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sometimes with thickened, fleshy roots. Stems scapelike or branched, compressed, and 2-winged. Leaves 2–6, basal or basal and cauline, alternate, basally
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beneath the spikelets. Spikelets bisexual, with 1 floret; florets laterally compressed, linear to suborbicular in sideview. Glumes absent; calluses not stipelike
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pedicels capillary, appressed to divergent. Spikelets 1.5-3.8 mm, laterally compressed, with 2 bisexual florets, both usually awned, the lower floret sometimes
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disarticulation tardy, above the glumes and between the florets. Spikelets laterally compressed, with 4-40 florets. Glumes irregularly 2-5-toothed; lemmas deeply cleft
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filiform. Utricles included in tepals, stramineous, ovoid or oblong, somewhat compressed, membranous, usually indehiscent. Seeds 1, lenticular, subglobose, to
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throughout (except as noted). Culms 35-150 cm, stout, compressed. Sheaths more or less strongly compressed or keeled, sides usually glabrous or sparsely pubescent
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internodes hollow. Leaves basal and cauline; sheaths open, keeled, strongly compressed, distinctly distichous, equitant; ligules to 0.5 mm, scarious, densely
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or the angles sparsely to densely scabrous. Spikelets 3-7 mm, laterally compressed, rarely bulbiferous; florets 2-5, usually bisexual, sometimes with vestigial
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rachises, perpendicular to the rachis concavities. Spikelets laterally compressed, with 2-22 florets, distal florets reduced; rachillas glabrous; disarticulation
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Sheaths closed from (1/3) 1/2 their length to their entire length, terete to compressed, distal sheaths shorter or longer than their blades; ligules 0.5-8 mm
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yellow to brownish; styles glabrous proximal to branches). Ray cypselae compressed, ± 3-angled, or rarely terete, clavate (often arcuate, basal attachments
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Juncus subg. Poiophylli 4 Leaves flat or ensiform. > 5 4 Leaves terete or compressed. > 6 5 Leaves ensiform, imperfectly septate Juncus subg. Ensifolii 5 Leaves
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dark-brown, reddish-brown, or black, circular to angular, plump or laterally compressed, smooth to variously sculptured to papillate, complete or partial, membranous
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parallel or converging sides in outline, terete to moderately laterally compressed, with 4-30 florets. Lower glumes 3-5-veined; upper glumes 5-9-veined;
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thecae pale or slightly darkened; stigmatic papillae in 2 lines. Cypselae ± compressed, often clavate, obconic, or ovoid, or obpyramidal and 3-angled, 4-angled
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without abaxial groove (except S. nodosa, which intermediate), laterally compressed or plump, smooth to tuberculate, marginal wing absent, appendage absent
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Cypselae reddish-brown, tan, whitish, or purplish to blackish, bodies compressed to flattened, elliptic to oblong, beaks stout (0.1–1 mm, gradually or
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orange to brown, angular-obovate, often with abaxial groove, laterally compressed, papillate-tuberculate, marginal wing absent, appendage absent. x = [9
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fused basally, white or red. Caryopses small, ellipsoid to subglobose, compressed dorsiventrally. x = 9. Conn., N.J., N.Y., Wash., Utah, W.Va., Mich., Del
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partially included in the upper¬most sheath. Spikelets rounded to laterally compressed, with 1 (-3) floret (s) per spikelet; disarticulation above the glumes
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base of the pedicels. Spikelets bisexual or unisexual, often laterally compressed, with (1) 2-many florets, reduced florets present, distal or basal to
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yellow to brownish; styles glabrous proximal to branches). Ray cypselae ± compressed (abaxially gibbous, basal attachments basal or oblique, apices beaked
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funnelform to campanulate throats, lobes 5, ± deltate. Cypselae (black) weakly compressed, narrowly oblanceolate or linear-oblong (usually 10-nerved, glabrous);
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Cypselae (usually purplish black, sometimes mottled) ± obpyramidal, ± compressed (glabrous, glabrate, or ± hairy); pappi 0 (H. porteri), or readily falling
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ellipsoid to ovoid, glabrous [hairy]. Seeds 1 [–5], brown, laterally compressed; hilum narrowly ovate to obovate; embryo vertical; endosperm present.
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oblong, ovoid, obovoid, or oblanceoloid, slightly compressed, or globose to subglobose, not compressed, not arillate, margins usually not differentiated
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blackish purple, black, or gray, ovoid to pyriform or suborbicular, laterally compressed, smooth, rugulose, or tuberculate, marginal wing absent, appendage absent
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5–35, brown to dark-brown or black, reniform or suborbicular, laterally compressed or not, shiny or dull, smooth, rugulose, or tuberculate, marginal wing
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evidently differentiated and not separating. Seeds many, black or brown, ± compressed, with or without ± parallel, arcuate ridges, estrophiolate, circular-reniform
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cells not papillate. Inflorescences terminal panicles. Spikelets scarcely compressed, with 1 floret, floret bisexual; rachillas prolonged beyond floret base;
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parallel, obscure), obovoid, saccate most of lengths (trigonously [evenly] compressed, galeate, abaxially rounded [corniculate-crested], each enclosing a floret);
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disarticulating). Sessile spikelets dorsally compressed, calluses blunt or pointed; lower glumes dorsally compressed and rounded basally, 2-keeled or winged
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florets usually terete, fusiform or globose, sometimes somewhat laterally compressed; calluses 0.1-4 mm, blunt to sharp, usually strigose; lemmas stiffly membranous
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terete to slightly transversely compressed, 3–7 mm. Berries dark blue to black, globose to dorsiventrally compressed, 6–12 × 6–12 mm. 2n = 24. Phenology:
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apex often constricted proximal to tubercle. Tubercles not dorsiventrally compressed, similar in cross-section to achene. Tropical to temperate latitudes worldwide
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achene; style and tufted stigma deciduous. Achenes sessile, laterally compressed, ovoid to teardrop-shaped, free from perianth at maturity, partly covered
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(1–) 3–20+, yellowbrown to dark-brown, globose to ellipsoid, laterally compressed, rarely shiny, papillate or rugose, rarely smooth, marginal wing absent
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when young. Staminate flowers subglobose or obovate; perianth slightly compressed, segments distinct, 0.8–1 mm wide; lateral 2 somewhat fleshy, apically
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lanceolate. Cypselae usually obovoid or obconic, sometimes fusiform, ± compressed, nerves (2–) 3–5 (–10, sometimes dark-translucent), faces glabrous or
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monomorphic within heads, usually ellipsoid or columnar to prismatic [compressed or obcompressed], not beaked (sometimes abruptly constricted at each end)
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the tubercle. Tubercles sessile on achene summit, dorsiventrally greatly compressed, proportionally much thinner than achene in cross-section. Temperate North
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erect or ± spreading. Cypselae narrowly obovoid to fusiform, sometimes ± compressed, 5–6-nerved, sparsely strigillose or glabrate. x = 5. North America, worldwide
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irregular or fruits drupaceous]. Seeds 2–20, reddish-brown to dark-brown, compressed or lenticular [angular], sometimes winged, (testa vascularized, ± lignified);
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equaling abruptly expanded throats, lobes 5, triangular. Cypselae strongly compressed, obovate to cuneate (margins ciliate, apices usually ± notched except
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membranous, indehiscent. Seeds brown, subglobose to ellipsoid, laterally compressed, smooth, marginal wing absent, appendage absent; embryo peripheral, curved
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or absent. Fruits achenes, 1-locular; achene body thick-lenticular or compressed-ellipsoid to discoid, 1.2-3 times as wide as thick, not prolonged beyond
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absent; stigma tufted, persistent or deciduous. Achenes sessile, laterally compressed, ovoid or deltoid, loosely enclosed by inner tepals. x = 12, 13. Nearly
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cylindric, conelike; floral bracteoles 2, enlarged as lateral valves. Fruits compressed, winged nuts (samaras). Seeds 1 in each samara. Tropical and subtropical
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column, adnate to proximal 1/2, with callus; pollinia 4, obovoid, laterally compressed, subequal; caudicles 4 in 2 pairs; column not winged, apically 3-toothed
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depressed-globose to subglobose, glabrous. Seeds [1–] 2–10, brown, laterally compressed; hilum linear; embryo vertical; endosperm present. x = [12,] 13. Fla.
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deltate (papillate). Cypselae (often dark) fusiform, sometimes slightly compressed, sometimes slightly falcate, 8–10-ribbed, faces sparsely to densely strigose;
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transparent (white embryo visible), horseshoe, snail-shell or teardrop-shaped, compressed laterally, at least somewhat, tuberculate, marginal wing absent, appendage
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branched from the lower and middle nodes, usually succulent, slightly compressed, glabrous; nodes usually swollen, sometimes constricted on robust plants
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spikelet. Spikelets closely imbricate, appressed to pectinate, laterally compressed or terete, with 1-2 (3) florets, lowest floret in each spikelet bisexual
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(whitish or stramineous to gray, brown, or reddish) ellipsoid to obovoid, ± compressed, sometimes ± 3–4-angled (apices smooth, coroniform, or knobby), faces
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Treatment on page 475. Plants perennial; cespitose. Culms soft, somewhat compressed. Ligules membranous, papery, often erose, with or without cilia. Panicles
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partly covering anther; anther 4-celled; pollinia 4, obovoid, laterally compressed, nearly equal; rostellum slit, producing semiliquid viscidium attached
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papillate or glabrous, distinct portions very short. Cypselae ovoid, slightly compressed, faces smooth, glabrous, attachment scars slightly lateral; pappi persistent
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style-branch appendages linear. Cypselae oblanceoloid, subterete to slightly compressed, (3–) 5-ribbed, strigose; pappi usually persistent, of (3–) 5–20 (usually
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much exceeding, apical notch; stigma capitate. Seeds plump or slightly compressed, not winged, ovoid [oblong]; seed-coat (longitudinally, minutely reticulate
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spicate branches. Spikelets solitary, pedicellate or subsessile, laterally compressed, with 1-many florets, bisexual, pistillate or staminate, lowest and distal
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achene summit in form, texture, and color, not dorsoventrally greatly compressed. Temperate and boreal North America, South America (Argentina), South
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corollas white to pinkish, actinomorphic, ± equal. Cypselae ± terete or compressed; pappi 0, coroniform (of ± 10 scales), or of 4 (–5) [10–16] scales in
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triangular (linear in H. whitneyi). Cypselae fusiform to deltoid, subterete to compressed, 4–5-nerved, faces glabrous, canescent, or densely silky; pappi persistent
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rame axes, below the sessile spikelets. Spikelets somewhat dorsiventrally compressed. Sessile spikelets with 2 florets; glumes exceeding the florets, lanceolate
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cells not papillate. Inflorescences terminal panicles. Spikelets laterally compressed, pedicellate, with (2) 3-5 (7) florets, distal floret (s) reduced and
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Leggitt Copyright: Flora of North America Association Short-shoots usually compressed into tight rosettes, sometimes internodes extended and rosette structure
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1; styles lateral. Fruits without longitudinal ribs, strongly laterally compressed, abaxial wings absent, lateral wings absent, abaxially 2–3-ribbed, abaxial
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cartilaginous, apex truncate to turbinate. Seeds many, ± prismatic, or compressed, winged; seed-coat brown. x = 7. North America (incl. Mexico), Central
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subglobose, [glabrous] glabrate. Seeds 1 [–6], [buff] brown to black, laterally compressed; hilum circular [elliptic]; embryo vertical; endosperm present. x = 12
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asymmetrically ovoid to lanceoloid or nearly cylindric, sometimes longitudinally compressed, apex attenuate, walls smooth, eglandular, dehiscence loculicidal along
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flattened), appendages lacking. Cypselae light-brown, obovoid to cylindric, ± compressed, 5–10-nerved, glabrous or hispid; pappi persistent or falling, of 25–50
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as ovary; ovary compressed, nearly orbicular to crescent-shaped; style persistent, feathery, 2-3 mm or more. Achenes strongly compressed, ± orbicular, ca
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linear-lanceolate. Cypselae (light tan to purplish black) clavate or cylindric, not compressed, 5–8-nerved, hairy (glabrous in G. wrightii; hairs white, usually arising
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present. Seeds 40–100+, blackish brown, shield-shaped, dorsiventrally compressed, papillose-striate to papillate, marginal wing absent, appendage absent;
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below the glumes. Spikelets 1.8-7 mm, pedicellate, strongly laterally compressed, oval in outline, with 1 floret; rachillas not prolonged beyond the base
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scarious, coriaceous, or hardened perigynium (the ultimate “fruits” ± compressed, ± D-shaped); pappi 0. x = 12. United States, Mexico, West Indies, Central
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not spikelike, not disarticulating. Spikelets with 1 floret, laterally compressed, unawned; rachillas not prolonged; disarticulation above the glumes, achenes
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(glanddotted and, sometimes, hairy abaxially). Cypselae (black) strongly compressed, linear-oblanceolate to oblong-oblique, margins (at least abaxial) usually
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± equal. Bisexual florets 0. Cypselae brown, monomorphic: terete to ± compressed, narrowly obovoid (then slightly incurved, abaxially gibbous) to ± cylindric
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Inflorescences terminal, racemes, rarely panicles. Spikelets laterally compressed, with 5-20 (30) florets, upper florets reduced; disarticulation above
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(var. subtilis). Fruiting bracteoles sessile, ovate or rhombic, slightly compressed to thickened, 2–3.5 (–4) mm and about as broad or sometimes broader, often
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narrowly campanulate (cylindric or compressed), lobes 5, deltate (with resin sacs). Cypselae trigonous, ± compressed (apices truncate), ribs 3–5 (0–2 abaxial
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lengths to 3.5 times widths, narrowly lanceolate to ovate, laterally compressed, not bulbiferous; florets 2-5, bisexual; rachilla internodes smooth, glabrous
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elongate, stout, scaly. Culms 30-130 cm, terete to slightly compressed. Sheaths laterally compressed, glabrous or sparsely to densely pilose or villous, especially
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of cultivated taxa not disarticulating. Spikelets bisexual, laterally compressed, with 3 florets, lower 2 florets sterile, terminal floret functional.
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reniform-globose, or subglobose, sometimes angulate, sometimes laterally compressed or impressed, papillose or not, glabrous or hairy. x = 10, 11, [12,] 14
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appendages narrowly triangular. Cypselae sometimes dimorphic, obconic, compressed or not, of ray-florets often 3-angled, 4–12-ribbed, faces glabrous or
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appendages lanceolate. Cypselae (brownish) fusiform to linear or ovoid, ± compressed to subterete, 4-ribbed, faces sericeous (hairs subappressed, long, silky);
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and homomorphic, or almost so, not embedded in the rame axes, dorsally compressed. Sessile spikelets: calluses truncate, usually with silky hairs; glumes
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disarticulation in the rames, beneath the sessile spikelets. Spikelets dorsally compressed; sessile spikelets with 2 florets; lower glumes rounded, several-veined
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minutely hairy nodes, distinct portions minute. Cypselae ± barrel-shaped, ± compressed, smooth or ribbed, apices entire (denticulate in C. benedicta), glabrous
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glabrous or pubescent, hairs simple or dibrachiate. Young stems terete, compressed, or quadrangular, often narrowly 2–keeled to 2–winged, the sharp keels
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intermixed in otherwise staminate spikes; bracteoles laterally or vertically compressed, with vertical or horizontal achenes respectively, when mature either
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2-20 (45) cm, terete or weakly compressed; nodes terete. Sheaths closed for 1/4-1/3 their length, terete or weakly compressed, smooth, glabrous; collars smooth
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mm, lengths 3-3.6 times widths, lanceolate to narrowly ovate, laterally compressed, sometimes bulbiferous, drab, often slightly glaucous; florets 3-4 (7)
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into 2 or more lobes. Fruits: berries. Seeds brown to black, ovoid to compressed, smooth or warty; aril gelatinous; embryo linear, cotyledons flat, broad
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× 6–10 mm (including beak), opening from apex to middle. Seeds basally compressed. 2n = 30. Phenology: Flowering spring to fall; fruiting late summer–winter
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resupinate; sepals to 15 mm; lip 3-lobed, with 3 parallel lamellae; column compressed; pollinarium 1; pollinea 4, attached to viscidium by short stipe; stigma
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monocarpic, not viviparous, 1–6 dm, pubescent or glabrous. Stems erect, (compressed), not branched, succulent. Leaves persistent, forming basal rosette, alternate
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style-branch appendages lanceolate. Cypselae cylindro-obconic to fusiform, ± compressed, 7–12 (–18) -nerved, faces glabrous or sparsely to densely strigillose
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branches longer than 1 cm. Spikelets 15-50 min, pedicellate, laterally compressed, with 1-6 (8) florets; rachillas not prolonged beyond the base of the
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on shed achene or 1–few bristles weakly persistent; achenes biconvex or compressed-trigonous with low, rounded abaxial angle; achene epidermal cells appearing
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lobes (4–) 5, ± equal. Bisexual florets 0. Cypselae brown, monomorphic: compressed to obcompressed, ± obovoid, slightly incurved, abaxially gibbous, faces
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parallel or diverging sides in outline, terete to moderately laterally compressed, with 4-11 florets. Lower glumes 1-3-veined; upper glumes 3-5-veined;
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greenish white, glabrous; stigma recessed. Capsules globose or slightly compressed laterally, circular or cordate in outline with longitudinal ridge across
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lobes deltate; petals 5, corolla yellow or yellowish [bronze to bluish], compressed, strongly bilabiate, narrowly campanulate, abaxial lobes 3, adaxial 2
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equaling abruptly expanded throats, lobes 5, triangular. Cypselae strongly compressed or flattened, ± cuneate (margins ± white, corky, usually ciliate, faces
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Seeds ca. 20, golden chestnut to reddish-brown, ± triangular, laterally compressed, lustrous, reticulate, marginal wing absent, appendage absent. se United
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maturity. Inflorescences terminal, panicles. Pistillate spikelets laterally compressed, with 2 florets; disarticulation above the glumes and between the florets;
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persistent, spinelike style; ovule pendulous. Achene ellipsoid, moderately compressed, surface smooth or tuberculate, basal or marginal spines (or both) present
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1–3; styles linear, 2-fid, base persistent. Achenes biconvex, laterally compressed. Mostly tropical or warm-temperate regions worldwide Species 40–45 (5
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3-gonous, indehiscent. Seeds white with tan band, reniform or subglobose, not compressed, finely papillose, marginal wing absent, appendage absent; embryo peripheral
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warty, scaly, or ridged, indehiscent. Seeds 50–500, ellipsoid to ovoid, compressed, not arillate, margins not differentiated, surface smooth. x = 12. Introduced; Asia
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narrowly triangular. Cypselae cylindric to narrowly obovoid, terete to compressed, 2–5-nerved, 8-nerved, or 10-nerved, faces strigose, sometimes gland-dotted;
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oblong-cylindric, pulpy. Seeds 3-many per pistil, bean-shaped, slightly compressed laterally, coat tough, margins absent. x=9. Subtropical and temperate
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to pale-pink or purplish, 10-17 × 3-7 mm. Capsules compressed-cylindric, ca. 10 mm. Seeds compressed-globose, lustrous. 2n = 32. Phenology: Flowering summer–early
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distally open, loose, ribbed; ligules absent; blades mostly filiform, compressed or lunate to semicircular in cross-section, margins strongly involute
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some pedicels and branches, elliptic to lanceolate, strongly laterally compressed, not crowded or overlapping, with 4-12 florets. Glumes smooth or scabrous
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rachises; rachises with the spikelets partially embedded. Spikelets not compressed, triangular in cross-section, with 1 floret, floret bisexual; rachillas
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dimorphic, usually paired, subsessile to shortly pedicellate, laterally compressed, proximal spikelet of each pair sterile, almost completely concealing
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florets. Spikelets 2-17 mm, solitary, pedicellate, terete or laterally compressed, with 3 florets, lower 2 florets sterile, at least the upper equaling
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erect, green, becoming chestnut-brown, elliptic to oblongelliptic, often compressed on drying, 1-2.5 cm, glabrous, base and apex blunt, apex with conspicuous
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pistillate; tepals 5, membranaceous; stamens 3 (–5). Utricles obovoid to compressed-obovoid, 1.4–2 mm, shorter than tepals, prominently muricate (especially
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trichomes; lenticels light colored, elliptic, prominent. Buds ovoid, slightly compressed, 3-7 mm, apex acute; outer scales dark-brown, often pubescent and minutely
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broadly obcordate to suborbicular, slightly keeled, angustiseptate (strongly compressed), (apex notched); valves prominently veined, (apex narrowly winged), glabrous;
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sparsely scabrous, rarely moderately scabrous. Spikelets 3-7 mm, laterally compressed, some or all bulbiferous; florets (2) 3-7, forming a bulblet, sometimes
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