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page 419. Plants annual, glabrous or glabrescent. Bracts of pistillate flowers leaflike, deltate or rhombic-deltate, very broad, margins crispate and denticulate

ovate, deltate, or rhombic, 1.5–5.5 × 1.4–10 cm, base cordate, subcordate, truncate, or attenuate, margins entire, crenate-serrate, or dentate, or coarsely

Annuals or perennials, mostly 50–150+ cm (often rhizomatous). Leaves all or mostly cauline; opposite; petiolate; blades (pinnately nerved) deltate or rounded-rhombic

alternate); petiolate; blades 1-nerved or 3-nerved, ovate, deltate, or rhombic to lanceolate, margins entire or toothed [lobed, 2-pinnatifid], faces usually

"seed-coat architecture or pubescence or relief","spike height or length or size","spike shape","stamen presence","stem architecture or shape","stem arrangement"

prismatic or compressed to flattened, rarely, if ever, beaked, bodies often 10-ribbed or (4–) 5-angled, smooth or papillate to rugose between ribs or angles

broadly ovate to deltate or rhombic with 5–18 pairs of lateral-veins, 3–10 × 3–8 cm, base truncate to cuneate, marginally coarsely, irregularly, or sometimes

nerved) deltate or rounded-rhombic to cordate or ovate, often raggedly pinnately lobed (lobes 3–11), ultimate margins coarsely toothed to denticulate or entire

from bases or throughout. Leaves mostly basal; alternate; petiolate; blades rounded-deltate, lanceolate, or rhombic, margins crenate, serrate, or subentire

(distal sometimes alternate); petiolate; blades (3–5-nerved) ± deltate, ovate, or rhombic (proximal 1–3 pairs, often 3–5-lobed), margins usually toothed

"seed-coat architecture or pubescence or relief","spike height or length or size","spike shape","stamen presence","stem architecture or shape","stem arrangement"

"seed-coat architecture or pubescence or relief","spike height or length or size","spike shape","stamen presence","stem architecture or shape","stem arrangement"

basal and/or cauline; opposite (sometimes whorled) or alternate; petiolate or sessile; blades (pinnately nerved or 3-nerved or 5-nerved from at or near bases)

blades deltate, lance-elliptic, lanceolate, lance-linear, linear, linear-oblong, ovate, or rhombic, sometimes pinnately lobed, ultimate margins entire or toothed

petiolate (obscurely in E. scaposa); blades (1-nerved or 3-nerved) mostly deltate, lanceolate, rhombic, or ovate (narrowly oblanceolate to linear in E. scaposa)

usually deltate, lanceolate, ovate, rhombic, or triangular, sometimes orbiculate, margins entire, crenate, dentate, or serrate, faces glabrous or hispidulous

Perennials or subshrubs, 10–20 cm; densely short-hairy. Leaves: petioles 10–80 mm; blades broadly ovate, ovate-deltate, or ovate-rhombic, 5–12 (–15) ×

internodes not winged). Leaves all or mostly opposite (distal sometimes alternate); blades ovate-deltate or rhombic to lance-elliptic, 3–5 × 1–3 cm, bases

mm; blades 3-nerved from bases, deltate or rhombic-ovate, 50–100 × 20–50 mm, bases acute to truncate, margins crenate or coarsely dentate, apices long-acuminate

bases, deltate-ovate or rhombic-ovate, 20–140 × 10–100 mm, bases truncate to cordate, margins irregularly dentate, apices acute, faces glanddotted or glandular-pubescent

Albersia) or dioecious (subg. Acnida), glabrous or pubescent. Stems erect, ascending, decumbent, or prostrate, usually branched, occasionally simple or nearly

mostly cordate, deltate, elliptic, lanceolate, linear, oblanceolate, oblong, obovate, ovate, rhombic, or spatulate, often 1–2-pinnately or ternately lobed

opposite [alternate]; petiolate; blades 3-nerved, deltate-ovate or triangular-deltate [elliptic, rhombic], margins ± crenate to serrate, faces glabrous,

Stems ± procumbent. Leaf-blades deltate to ± rhombic or ovate, 13–37 × 7–32 mm, faces sparsely scabrellous to glabrate or glabrescent, glanddotted. Fruits

internodes not winged). Leaves all or mostly alternate (proximal usually opposite); blades deltate-ovate or rhombic to lanceolate, 3–8 (–12+) × 2–4 (–6+)

opposite; petiolate or ± sessile; blades mostly elliptic to deltate, rhombic, or ovate, sometimes lyrate, ultimate margins entire or toothed, faces usually

architecture or shape","cauline leaf arrangement","cauline leaf arrangement or course or shape","cauline leaf orientation","cauline leaf prominence or shape"

blade gray-green, deltate to rhombic, ovate, or oblongelliptic, 5–50 × 5–50 mm, base truncate to subhastate, margin entire to repand or subhastately lobed

0.5–2 cm; blade unlobed, deltate, ovate, rhombic, to triangular-lanceolate, 3–7 × 1–4 cm, base abruptly narrowed, truncate, or oblique, apex acute to acuminate

petiolate (petioles 10–30 mm); blades ± 3-nerved distal to bases, deltate to rhombic, 25–80 × 20–60 mm, bases broadly cuneate, margins usually serrate

rounded-rhombic, or suborbiculate, margins toothed or entire, faces usually lanate, pilose, or tomentose, sometimes glandular-pubescent and/or furfuraceous

unlobed, deltate to rhombic, ovate, or reniform-cordate, usually longer than wide, margins ± serrate, crenate-serrate, or dentate to deeply serrate or coarsely

usually 3-nerved from or distal to bases, or pinnately nerved, mostly deltate or ovate to lanceolate or linear (and intermediate shapes, sometimes elliptic

"perianth segment texture","pericarp architecture or coloration or relief","pericarp architecture or pubescence or relief","pericarp coloration","pericarp texture"

"sepal fusion","side architecture or function or pubescence","side architecture or pubescence or relief","side architecture or shape","side pubescence","side

sometimes basal or basal and cauline; mostly opposite (distal sometimes alternate); petiolate or sessile; blades (palmately or pinnately nerved) deltate to linear

glabrous to sparsely pilose; petals (5-) 6, yellow, elliptic, deltate, rhombic, obovate, or nearly orbiculate, 0.6-2 × 0.4-1.4 mm, glabrous. Staminate flowers:

1-flowered, bracteolate; bracteoles (2–) 3 (–4), in epicalyx, distinct, deltate-rhombic, small. Flowers: tepals persistent, 6, spreading, erect in fruit, distinct

minutely pilose. Leaves opposite; petioles 7–15 (–22) mm; blades narrowly deltate to rhombic, 2–6 (–7) × 1.5–4 cm, (usually subcoriaceous) bases usually cuneate

5–1.5 dm. Basal leaves: blade suborbicular, deltate to rhombic, or elliptic, margins entire or sparsely dentate, 2–4 (–6) cm. Cauline leaves (shortly petiolate);

ovate-oblong, or broadly rhombic, rarely ± deltate, 2–6 (–7) cm, subcoriaceous, base broadly cuneate to subtruncate to weakly subcordate, lobes (1–) 3 or 4 per

individually subtend some or all of the florets) or epaleate (lacking paleae); epaleate receptacles sometimes bristly or hairy or bearing subulate enations

20–150+ cm. Leaf-blades ± deltate to rhombic-deltate, 40–200+ × 25–150+ mm, lengths 1–2 (–3+) times widths, margins ± toothed or entire. Peduncles 1–10+

Pinnae in 6–21 pairs, deltate to rhombic; medial pinnae 5–6 × 4–5 mm; base obtuse and often inequilateral; distal margins crenate; apex rounded to acute

erect, internodes not winged). Leaves all or mostly opposite (distal sometimes alternate); blades ± deltate to rhombic, 3–8+ × 2–5+ cm, bases ± cuneate, margins

lanceolate to trullate or deltate, (2.5–) 4–7 (–8) cm, thin or chartaceous, base ± cuneate to rounded, lobes 0 or (1–) 3 or 4 (or 5) per side, sinuses usually

sometimes eglandular; blade mid to dark green or ± blue-green, ± ovate or ± trullate to rhombic or deltate, sometimes suborbiculate, (2–) 3–6 (–7) cm, thin

decumbent, or prostrate, simple, [woody], leafy; from horizontal or vertical, thick, fleshy or subligneous, shallow or deep-seated rhizome (caudex); or from

leaves) deltate-ovate to rhombic-ovate 3.5–12 (–30) × 4–10 (–25) mm, base cordate to cuneate, apex acute to obtuse; cauline on proximal 1/2 of stem or absent

petiolate or sessile; blades cordate, deltate, elliptic, lanceolate, linear, rhombic, orbiculate, or ovate (and intermediate shapes), often 1 (–2+) -palmately

perennials, subshrubs, or shrubs, 2–45 (–75) cm. Leaves cauline; opposite or alternate; petiolate or sessile; blades mostly deltate to ovate or lanceolate overall

alternate, rarely whorled; petiolate or sessile; blades (often 3-nerved or 5-nerved) orbiculate or deltate to lanceolate or linear (and intermediate shapes)

alternate; petiolate or sessile; blades usually 3-nerved from bases, deltate, lance-elliptic, lance-linear, lanceolate, lanceovate, lance-rhombic, linear, oblong

ovate, or deltate, apex obtuse to apiculate; cauline leaves 2 and opposite, rarely 3 and whorled, distinct or partially or completely connate, or perfoliate

sepals erect or spreading, linear, lanceolate, elliptic, oblong, ovate, or deltate, lateral pair usually saccate basally, sometimes subsaccate or not saccate;

alternate or mostly alternate; sessile or petiolate; blades (or lobes) deltate, elliptic, filiform, lanceolate, linear, obovate, ovate, or rhombic (and most

blades (1-nerved or 3-nerved) deltate, elliptic, linear, ovate, or rhombic, sometimes 1–2-pinnately lobed or pinnatifid, bases cordate or truncate to cuneate

arrangement or shape","petal quantity","petiole architecture or function or pubescence","petiole presence","plate architecture or pubescence or relief","plate

fan-shaped, or obovate to oblanceolate, linear to oblong, elliptic or rhombic, to lanceolate, ovate, triangular, deltate, round, or reniform, lobed or unlobed

sparse or absent at flowering); alternate; sessile or petiolate; blades 1-nerved or 3-nerved, linear, lanceolate, ovate, oblong, obovate, or rhombic (usually

Annuals or perennials, (5–) 20–300 (–500) cm. Stems erect or ascending to decumbent or procumbent, usually branched distally. Leaves basal and/or cauline;

blades (often 3-nerved or 5-nerved) mostly deltate, elliptic, lanceolate, lanceovate, linear, ovate, or rhombic, sometimes pinnately or palmately lobed, ultimate

reflexed or not, deltate, deltate-ovate, or deltate-lanceolate; petals 5 (–9 in G. glaciale), white to yellow, sometimes suffused with pink or purple, or purple-veined

corymbiform or racemiform, hairy or glabrous; bracts present or absent; bracteoles present or absent. Pedicels present. Flowers opening before or after full

Annuals or perennials [shrubs, vines], 5–400 cm. Stems usually 1, usually erect, (terete or 4-angled, often striate or sulcate) branched distally or ± throughout

268, 293. Herbs or shrubs, annual or perennial, monoecious or dioecious, often with bladderlike hairs that collapse to form silvery or scurfy (mealy) vesture

"perispore architecture","petiole shape","row quantity","scale arrangement or course or shape","scale quantity","side quantity","sorus quantity","sorus shape"

Trophophores ascending to perpendicular to stem, sessile or stalked; blades linear, oblong, or deltate, simple to 5-pinnate, 4–25 × 1–35 cm. Pinnae (reduced to

termed a gland or ligule) or not. W. Leinfellner (1960), using comparative and developmental data, argued that the rhombic, deltate, or reniform portion

eglandular; blade ± elliptic to ± ovate, ± rhombic, or rhombic-ovate, sometimes suborbiculate or ovate-deltate, 4–8 (–12) cm, thin to ± firmly chartaceous

accessory; aggregated achenes, 30 (or less) –150, borne on enlarged torus, superficial or embedded in torus flesh, ovate or ± ovoid, 1–2 mm, glabrous; torus

flowering in A. pringlei), tan or light-brown, scalelike, sometimes keeled, deltate or ovate, (tips often marcescent), or hue as in leaves, leaflike, narrowly

"seed-coat architecture or pubescence or relief","spike height or length or size","spike shape","stamen presence","stem architecture or shape","stem arrangement"

throats, lobes 5, deltate. Cypselae ± ovoid or plumply 4-angled or 5-angled, finely 32–40-ribbed, sparsely strigose or glabrous; pappi 0, or of 1–10+ subulate

glabrate, puberulent, villous, or tomentose hairs golden, tan, or white, stipitate or sessile-glandular or absent; bracts absent or subtending inflorescence

petiolate or sessile; blades mostly cordate, deltate, elliptic, lanceolate, linear, oblanceolate, oblong, obovate, ovate, or spatulate, margins entire or toothed

broadly rhombic to deltate or reniform, 1–7 × 0.5–5 (–6) cm, apex obtuse to apiculate, mucro 1–3 mm; cauline leaves sessile, blade perfoliate or cleft or

alternate (distal); petiolate or ± sessile; blades often 3-nerved (from at or near bases), deltate, deltate-ovate, lance-linear, lanceolate, lanceovate, linear

suborbiculate or rhombic, 2–7 (–8) cm, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, base broadly cuneate or rounded to truncate or subcordate, lobes 3–5 per side, sinuses shallow

prominence or shape","bracteole presence","bud arrangement","bud arrangement or growth form","bud orientation","dorsal awn quantity","drupe architecture or pubescence

sessile, not connate basally; blade oblanceolate to broadly rhombic [ovate-deltate to elliptic or oblanceolate], laminar, 3–11 [–40] cm, fleshy, base not spurred

acuminate to obtuse, surfaces glabrous or pubescent. Inflorescences (2 or) 3–8-flowered, convex panicles; branches glabrous or hairy; bracteoles (not seen in 97

Leaf-blade ovate to deltate, elliptic, or nearly orbiculate, 0.5–10 (–14) × 0.5–8 cm, thin, margins doubly serrate or serrate (or crenate to shallowly

appear 2-ranked, or opposite in 4 ranks, or whorled, deltate-scalelike to linear, decurrent, sessile or petioled; adult leaves appressed or spreading, often

blade ± rhombic to elliptic-oblong or ovate-rhombic, sometimes suborbiculate, 3–8 cm, coriaceous or thin, base cuneate to ± rounded, lobes (0 or) 1–4 per

obovate, or obdeltate to rhombic, 0.7–5 mm diam.; wool white, yellow, or tan to brown. Spines with whole epidermis sheath deciduous; major spines not or only

160, 163. Herb or shrubs [trees], annual or perennial, unarmed, monoecious or dioecious; hairs unbranched [stellate], sometimes glandular, or absent; latex

straight or flexuous, short-shoots short-to-elongate, branched or not, sometimes interspersed with long-shoot segments. Leaves persistent or drought or winter-deciduous

Pedicels eglandular. Flowers: sepals deltate, hairy, eglandular or glandular; petals pink, obovate, 8–20 mm, apex entire or emarginate. 2n = 21. Phenology:

architecture or shape","pinna orientation","pinna shape","ridge pubescence or texture","root architecture","root architecture or pubescence or relief","root

Bark exfoliating readily or tardily in reddish-brown or blackish sheets, or gray to brown strips or strings. Branches spreading or ascending, often stunted

lobes 4–5, deltate. Cypselae 2–3-angled (peripheral) or strongly compressed, ellipsoid to obovoid (glabrous or ciliate on the 2–3 angles or ribs); pappi

[petiolate]; blades rhombic to lanceolate or oblanceolate [elliptic, spatulate, trullate], margins entire or toothed, faces glabrous or puberulent to pilose

for many years, ovoid or globose, 1–3.5 cm; scales persistent, in 2 equally inserted whorls of 3 (–4), valvate, rhombic-deltate, basifixed, thick and woody

erect, white or pinkish, oblong-oblanceolate or obovate to oblong-obovate, flabelliform-reniform, or obovate-rhombic, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled

appressed, or ± ascending), or hirsute-pilose (hairs erect, straight), or ± villous (hairs wavy or wavy-crinkled), or hairs tightly coiled or 1/2 coiled

cushion-shaped, or cylindric, 4–10 cm, smooth, ribbed, or warty, flesh yellow to light orange or greenish or whitish, bitter or not. Seeds whitish to cream or tawny

erect or ascending, ultimate branches strict to diffuse. Leaves: stipules ± persistent, filiform to subulate; blade ovate to round, rhombic, or reniform

rounded to ± rhombic, median lobe deltate to ovate, apex acuminate or mucronate; primary-veins 7 (–9); basal leaves often less distinctly lobed or entire and

unequal, green, deltate to lanceolate or linear, margins sometimes narrowly scarious (sometimes ciliate), apices acute (faces glabrous or stipitate to setose-glandular)

alternate); sessile; blades rhombic to lanceolate or oblanceolate [spatulate], margins entire or serrate, faces glabrous or puberulent to pilose, glanddotted

architecture","body architecture or pubescence or relief","body architecture or shape","body relief","branch arrangement or course or shape","branch structure

revolute, serrate, serrulate, or denticulate; apex acute, acuminate, or abruptly acuminate; costa subpercurrent, with 2 or more shorter, supplementary costae

corollas yellow or orange to brick-red [purplish, ochroleucous, or white], tubes longer than funnelform throats, lobes 5, erect or reflexed, deltate to lanceolate;

palmately 5-lobed or pedately 3-lobed, rarely unlobed, lobes narrowly oblong to linear or cuneate to flabellate or rhombic-ovate, margins lobulate or coarsely toothed

"pistil orientation","seed coloration or pubescence or relief","seed shape","sepal fusion","sepal variability","stamen size or quantity","stem orientation","stem

glandular. Leaves: petioles 2–15 mm; blades deltate-ovate to ovate-rhombic, 6–23 × 5–24 mm, margins usually entire or serrate to serrate-crenate, sometimes shallow-lobed

architecture or arrangement or growth form","fruits capsule dehiscence","gland position","gland presence","glomerule architecture or arrangement or growth form"

dentate, or serrate to denticulate (callous denticles relatively few or 0). Heads radiate or discoid, borne singly or in compact or congested to open,

margins entire or erose to lacerate, with or without gland-tipped processes, apex acute to acuminate; petiole 0.5–20 cm; blade usually rhombic, sometimes orbiculate

7 (–3) × 0.1–0.2 (–0.3) mm; lip rhombic-deltate to cordate-ovate or oblongelliptic, 1.1–2.3 × 1–2.2 mm, base cordate or auriculate, auricles less than 0

Perennials or subshrubs (in rock crevices). Involucres funnelform, campanulate, or hemispheric, 5–11 × 3.5–14 mm. Ray-florets 0, or 3–5, or 6–18; corollas

hirsute. Leaves: petiole 0.5–4 cm, not stipitate-glandular; blade rhombic-ovate to rhombic-lanceolate, 2–9 (–12) × 1.2–5 (–6.5) cm, base cuneate to rounded

architecture","body architecture or pubescence or relief","body relief","bractlet quantity","branch arrangement or course or shape","branch structure in adjective

architecture or arrangement or growth form","flower arrangement or growth form","fruit life cycle","margin architecture","ovary architecture or structure

"sepal fusion","side architecture or function or pubescence","side architecture or pubescence or relief","side architecture or shape","side pubescence","side

architecture","body architecture or pubescence or relief","body relief","bractlet quantity","branch arrangement or course or shape","branch structure in adjective

with distinct reddish or brown margins, usually ovate to depressed-ovate or obovate, sometimes elliptic to triangular or rhombic, 0.5–0.9 × 0.4–0.7 mm

architecture or arrangement or growth form","flower duration","flower part life cycle","flower shape","flower tube fusion","flower tube height or length or size"

"primary-stem growth form or orientation","segment arrangement or course or shape","segment presence","segment quantity","seta height or length or size","seta quantity"

glandular-hairs often abundant. Leaf-blades ash green, ovate, ± rhombic, or suborbiculate, unlobed or 3-lobed or 5-lobed, 2.5–4.5 (–7) cm, thin to thick, surfaces:

"series quantity","short-shoot length or size","short-shoot presence","stamen height or length or size","stamen length or size","staminode function","staminode

petioles 5–25 mm; blades rounded-deltate overall, 25–90+ × 15–35+ mm, (1–) 2 (–3) -pinnatisect, ultimate lobes lance-rhombic or ovate to lanceolate, 15–30 (–50+)

1–1.8 × 0.1–0.2 mm; lip rhombic-deltate to cordate-ovate or oblongelliptic, 1.8–2.5 × 1.9–2.5 mm, base with auricles 0.6 or more times as long as distance

long-deltate, margins toothed, apex broadly acute. Inflorescences pendent, solitary flowers or 2–3-flowered corymbs, 0.5–1.5 cm, axis glabrous or sparsely

prostrate or ascending, 5-20 cm, glabrous, each with 1-6 flowers. Roots cylindric, 2-3 mm thick. Basal leaves persistent, blades rhombic to deltate or reniform

0.7–7.2 cm, glabrous or puberulent; blade unlobed, ovate or deltate, or 3-lobed (if 3-lobed, lateral lobes falcate, middle rhombic, longer than others,

cordate, lobes ovate-deltate to obovate or obovate-rhombic, midveins of leaf lobes not distinctly elongate-whitened, margins denticulate to serrate-denticulate

30–36% blade, eglandular or slightly glandular; blade deltate (mainly on shoots with terminal inflorescence) to broadly rhombic-elliptic, 4–7 cm, subcoriaceous

purplish, sparsely pubescent), to 1.5 dm. Basal leaves: blade deltate, hastate, or, less often, rhombic to elliptic, 1–5 cm, margins entire (often partially involute)

pubescence or relief","body architecture or shape","body relief","branch arrangement or course or shape","branch structure in adjective form","bristle pappus duration"

completely or to 1 mm below apex in fresh and rehydrated specimens, 3.9–5.8 mm, glabrous or scant simple-hirtellous near ovary; stigmas erect or ascending

present as scattered yellow, red, or brown splotches. Turions present or absent, lateral and/or terminal. Leaves submersed or emersed (not emersed in M. farwellii)