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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disarticulation tardy, above the glumes and between the florets. Spikelets laterally compressed, with 5-40 florets. Glumes irregularly short-toothed or entire; lemmas
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not compressed, 2.5-4 × 2.5-4 cm; husks rough, 4-15 mm thick, dehiscing to base, sutures smooth; nuts tan, ovoid, obovoid, or ellipsoid, compressed, 4-angled
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with several blunt to acute ridges and sulcate, subterete to slightly compressed, to 2 times as wide as thick, 5–15 cm × 0.5–1 mm, firm to hard; culm tufts
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some pedicels and branches, elliptic to lanceolate, strongly laterally compressed, not crowded or overlapping, sometimes purplish, with 4-11 florets. Glumes
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exposed; disarticulation at the rachis nodes. Spikelets dorsiventrally compressed, with 1-2 florets, second floret reduced and sterile; rachillas sometimes
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exserted or partially included in the upper sheath (s). Spikelets laterally compressed, subsessile or pedicellate, with 4 florets per spikelet; disarticulation
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disarticulation in the rames, below the sessile spikelets. Spikelets dorsally compressed, in heterogamous sessile-pedicellate pairs. Sessile spikelets embedded
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mainly extravaginal. Culms 7.5-60 cm, slender to stout, terete or weakly compressed, bases usually decumbent, not branching above the bases; nodes terete
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reddish-brown, finely mottled, spheric to ellipsoid or obovoid, not compressed to compressed, 3-5 × 3-5 cm; husks rough, 4-10 mm thick, dehiscing to middle
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thinner than 0.5 mm. Spikelets pedicellate, subterete to weakly laterally compressed, with 2-10 florets; disarticulation above the glumes, beneath the florets
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(–40+); corollas yellowish (red-tipped in P. luteoalbum). Cypselae oblong-compressed or cylindric, faces usually smooth, sometimes papillate-roughened and/or
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glabrous. Leaves linear, vernation conduplicate; sheaths open, glabrous, compressed laterally, often purple-streaked at the base; ligules membranous, long-ciliate;
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5(–6) mm; seeds (2.8–)4.1–5.2 mm, bottle-shaped, strongly dorsiventrally compressed and weakly 3-angled in cross section, with linear carunclelike structure
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borne singly. Spikelets 1.2-8.2 mm, lanceoloid to ellipsoid, dorsally compressed, apices obtuse to acuminate, unawned, with 2 florets; disarticulation
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some branches longer than 1 cm. Spikelets pedicellate, weakly laterally compressed, with 1 (2) florets; rachillas prolonged beyond the base of the distal
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ascending, yellowish-brown to dark-brown, linear to linear-lanceoloid, compressed-quadrangular, (5–) 10–20 (–55) × (1.2–) 1.4–2 (–3) mm; floral scales persistent
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Inflorescences usually paniculate racemes, simple racemes in small plants; peduncle compressed; floral bracts spreading to reflexed, 1–2 mm. Flowers yellow or pale green
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distally; pedicels less than 0.5 mm thick. Spikelets pedicellate, laterally compressed to terete, with 2-8 florets; disarticulation above the glumes and beneath
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irregularly. Seeds dark-brown or black, ovoid to lenticular, slightly laterally compressed, shiny, smooth, marginal wing absent, appendage absent; embryo peripheral
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terminating in a functional spikelet. Spikelets 3.5-11 mm, laterally compressed, with 2-15 bisexual florets; disarticulation above the glumes and between
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cespitose, sometimes rhizomatous in the tropics. Culms erect to decumbent, compressed, sometimes slightly succulent. Sheaths almost glabrous or hispid, hairs
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dimorphic, narrowly obovoid to oblong, of ray obscurely 3-sided, of disc compressed laterally, (1–) 1.5–3.5 mm, walls thick, 6–18-ribbed, often prominent
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lanceolate; style-branch appendages triangular-lanceolate. Cypselae obconic, compressed, nervation not evident, faces densely sericeous to villous (some hairs
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terrestrial, to 100 cm (excluding inflorescence). Stems modified into prominent, compressed pseudobulbs, subtended by 1–3 leafy bracts. Leaves 3, apical [2, lateral]
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scale-covered axis; disarticulation below the spikelets. Spikelets dorsally compressed, usually with 5 florets. Glumes absent; lemmas about 5 mm long, flabellate
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cespitose, rhizomatous. Culms slightly compressed, hard, sometimes with a cormlike base. Sheaths slightly compressed; ligules membranous, erose, ciliate.
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minutely retrorsely pubescent, mostly solid. Leaves mostly basal; sheaths compressed-keeled, closed, glabrous, margins scarious; ligules 1-3.5 mm, membranous
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absent. Echinodorus 3 Flowers unisexual (at least the proximal); fruits compressed, lateral wing often present, 1, curved. Sagittaria
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Petioles 0(–5) mm or proximals to 8 mm and distals 0 mm. > 8 8 Capsules compressed in cross section, apices emarginate by 1/3 length; leaf blades narrowly
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tall, 0.5-1.8 mm thick, erect or the bases decumbent, terete or weakly compressed; nodes terete, 0-2 exserted. Sheaths closed for 1/4-3/4 their length,
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maturity, subglobose, 4–7 mm, glabrous. Seeds 2–6, broadly ovoid, angular-compressed, sometimes reniform, 3–4 mm. Phenology: Flowering and fruiting year-round
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anther thecae dark; stigmatic papillae continuous. Cypselae (blackish) ± compressed [clavate to prismatic, ± 3–4-angled], often arcuate, glabrous [hairy];
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(10–) 12–16; laminae 15–20+ mm. Disc corollas yellow. Cypselae strongly compressed, obovate-cuneate to oblong (winged or almost wingless, margins ciliate
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broadly to narrowly oblong, dehiscence loculicidal. Seeds black, irregularly compressed and folded, colliculose. x = 8. sw United States to nw Argentina, s Bolivia
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distally; anther terminal, incumbent; pollinia 8 in 2 sets of 4, yellow, compressed, hard, waxy or rarely mealy; stigma entire; ovary pedicellate. Fruits
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septicidal. Seeds 1–8 per locule, ellipsoid to ovoid or conic, irregularly compressed or angled by mutual pressure. x = 8. Western Hemisphere, especially Mexico
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Cypselae dimorphic, narrowly obovoid to oblong, of ray 3-sided, of disc compressed laterally, generally 4-sided, 1.5–2.2 mm, walls thick, ribs 10–24, often
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pale-yellow, sparsely hairy or glabrous. Cypselae oblong-lanceoloid, somewhat compressed, 0.8–1 mm, faintly nerved, glabrous. Generated Map Legacy Map Alta., B
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widely ovate or elliptic, 0.6–1.2 × 0.5 mm; stamens 3; styles 3. Capsules compressed-globose, 3-locular, 1.2–1.7 [–2] mm diam. Seeds 10–25 per locule, oblong
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yellow, 10–17 mm; anthers 1.8–2 mm; gynophore 10–18 mm in fruit; ovary (compressed), 3.5–5 mm; style 1–3 mm. Capsules (pendent) not inflated, 12–25 × 8–12
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Culms 15-60 cm, distinctly compressed; nodes distinctly compressed. Sheaths closed for 1/10 – 1/5 their length, distinctly compressed; ligules 1-3 mm, moderately
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3-7 cm, with 6-12 florets, basal floret occasionally sterile, laterally compressed. Glumes 1-2, shorter than the lowest lemmas; lemmas to 2 cm, sometimes
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proximal to branches; anthers yellow). Ray cypselae (black or grayish) compressed or ± obcompressed, clavate, ± arcuate (basal attachments centered, apices
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solitary, subsessile, appressed, imbricate spikelets. Spikelets laterally compressed, with 1 (-3) florets, only the lowest floret functional; rachilla extension
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branches, and pedicels scabrous or hirsute. Spikelets terete or laterally compressed, with 3-12 florets, terminal floret reduced; disarticulation beneath the
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appendages linear-lanceolate. Cypselae fusiform to obconic, terete to slightly compressed, 7–10-ribbed, ± densely strigose; pappi persistent, of 25–50, white to
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(if present) obscurely 3-sided, rounded abaxially, disc ones slightly compressed laterally; pappi persistent, of 20–40, white or whitish (tawny in A. blepharophylla)
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style-branch appendages lanceolate. Cypselae cylindro-obconic to fusiform, ± compressed, 7–10-nerved, faces glabrous or densely strigillose, eglandular; pappi
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apices obtuse to acute or acuminate; florets 1.5-10 mm, usually dorsally compressed, sometimes terete; calluses 0.1-0.6 mm, glabrous or with hairs, blunt;
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25-120 cm, terete or weakly compressed; nodes terete or slightly compressed. Sheaths closed for about 1/4-1/2 their length, compressed, distal sheath lengths
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proximally; ovules 1–2; styles terminal. Fruits longitudinally ribbed, laterally compressed, not abaxially keeled, abaxial wings absent, lateral wings absent, glands
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Volume 22. Herbs, perennial, rhizomatous, 0.5–3 dm. Culms erect, slightly compressed. Leaves: basal 2–4, cauline 1–3; auricles absent or rudimentary; blade
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more, apex acuminatenate. Capsules ellipsoid to ovoid, 2 cm. Seeds black, compressed-globose or subglobose. Phenology: Flowering spring–early summer. Habitat:
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or elongate; stigma extended along style. Achenes stipitate, laterally compressed, ±orbicular, free from and not enclosed by perianth. x=13. North America
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mm across. Achenes uniformly light colored or with streaks of purple, compressed, teardrop-shaped, 1.3-1.7 × 0.6-1.1 mm, smooth or purple striations sometimes
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elongate; stigma linear, straight or hooked. Achenes sessile, laterally compressed, ovoid, nearly orbicular, or ellipsoid, tightly enclosed by persistent
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valves separating at apex during dehiscence. > 16 14 Leaves laterally compressed, 3–5 mm diam. Juncus validus var. fascinatus 14 Leaves terete, 1–4 mm
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Seeds 5–25, blackish, circular, subglobose or lenticular and laterally compressed, nearly smooth or finely papillate, membranous, entire marginal wing often
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throats, lobes 5, deltate. Cypselae ± terete or obscurely 3–4-angled to compressed or flattened (all usually tuberculate and usually bearing uncinate hairs;
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reddish. Cypselae obovoid to cylindric or fusiform, sometimes slightly compressed, faces strigillose (hairs not myxogenic, lengths 6–12 times diams.) and
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triangular; style-branch appendages triangular. Cypselae (stramineous) obconic, compressed, usually smooth or shallowly 1–10-ribbed, sometimes 2–10-ridged (ridges
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perianth, tan to dark-brown, unwinged to weakly winged, 3-gonous, sometimes compressed-3-gonous or nearly pyramidal, glabrous. Seeds: embryo straight. x = 7
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the glumes, beneath the florets. Spikelets 14-80 mm, terete to laterally compressed, with (3) 5-24 florets. Glumes unequal, 1/2 as long as to equaling the
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present. Seeds 8–15, blackish brown, shield or helmet-shaped, dorsiventrally compressed, reticulate to papillate, marginal wing absent, appendage absent; embryo
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(ray) 3-angled (each angle ± winged, wings not spine-tipped); inner (disc) compressed-prismatic to columnar (adaxial, rarely abaxial, angles sometimes ± winged
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Fruits brown, cylindric, obovoid, or nearly spheric, not compressed or only slightly compressed, 2-3 × 2-3.2 cm; husks rough, 2-3 mm thick, dehiscing to
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2-3 (-6) cm; bracteoles with yellow glands. Achenes yellowish, ovoid, compressed, glandular. 2n = 20, including 2 or more sex-determining chromosomes.
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in the axils of the leaves below. Spikelets 2-6 mm, strongly laterally compressed, with 1 floret; florets bisexua; disarticulation above or below the glumes
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longitudinal strips. Winter bud-scales 2, not enclosed by petiole wings, compressed, 5–9 mm, densely silvery-pubescent. Leaves: petiole 2–4 (–5) mm, wing
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dark reddish or yellowish-brown, narrowly to broadly obovate, laterally compressed, smooth to minutely papillate, marginal wing absent, appendage absent
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a hairy pedicel (2 pedicels in the terminal spikelet units), dorsally compressed. Calluses blunt or sharp; glumes coriaceous; lower glumes pubescent, 5-9-veined
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(sessile or substipitate), elliptic, suborbicular, or oblong, strongly compressed (angustiseptate), 5–9 mm, (rounded to sharply keeled on 1 side, edges
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appendages penicillate or lanceolate to attenuate). Cypselae (black or brown) ± compressed or flattened, often 3-angled or 4-angled or biconvex, ± cuneiform in silhouette
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branches strongly ascending and overlapping. Spikelets pedicellate, laterally compressed, with 1 floret; rachillas prolonged beyond the florets, glabrous or hairy;
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slightly imbricate, appressed to the branches, shortly pedicellate, laterally compressed, with 1-2 (4) florets, only the lowest 1 (2) floret (s) bisexual; rachilla
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slender, fibrous; pseudobulbs green, conic, ovoid, or ellipsoid, slightly compressed, soft (2 pseudobulbs typically present, parent pseudobulb enveloped in
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stamens; stigmas capitate. Fruits oblong to somewhat obovate, dorsoventrally compressed (adaxial face convex, internal, in inflorescence), with 5 strongly modified
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barely connate basally; anthers 0.3–0.5 mm. Capsules sessile or subsessile, compressed-subglobose, 1.7–3 × 2–3.4 mm, apically 4-toothed, teeth acute, 0.5–0.7
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florets falling as a cluster. Spikelets solitary, terete or laterally compressed, with 3 florets, lower 2 florets sterile, terminal floret bisexual, at
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reflexed, lanceolate; style-branch appendages lanceolate. Cypselae obconic, compressed, 2 marginal ribs, faces ± densely strigillose [glabrous], sometimes s
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(style-branches relatively slender, apices acute). Cypselae (brown to black) ± compressed, ± 3- or 4- angled, often obpyramidal, ± strigose; pappi persistent, of
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perigynium (the ultimate “fruits” plumply ellipsoid to fusiform, or ± compressed); pappi 0 or rudimentary. x = 11. Introduced; mostly tropical to warm-temperate
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hairy-ringed, distinct portions oblong, acute or obtuse. Cypselae obovoid, ± compressed, rough or ribbed, glabrous, attachment scars basal; pappi falling, of
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(–11); corolla lobes 4, ± equal. Cypselae brown, ± monomorphic: terete to ± compressed, cylindric to ± obovoid, usually straight, not gibbous, faces papillate
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appendages lanceolate. Cypselae turbinate to subcylindric, sometimes slightly compressed to nearly quadrate, 4–5-nerved (nerves thin, resinous), sparsely strigose;
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papillate). Cypselae (± brown) obpyramidal, (3–) 4-angled, not or slightly compressed (striate, rarely verrucose-tuberculate, glabrous); pappi readily falling
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Seeds pale to dark-brown, globular, 3-winged; cotyledons exuding oil when compressed. Phenology: Flowering when leafless at end of dry season, fruiting as
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ovoid to subcylindrical, glabrous, ovules 2–10 per locule; style columnar, compressed laterally; stigmas weakly 2-lobed [3-lobed]; pedicels unequal, elongate
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aggregate, sessile or stipitate, oblong or elliptic to obovate, laterally compressed, sides with a few prominent veins and transverse veinlets; beak terminal
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indehiscent “fruit”; carpophore present. Seeds 1, yellowish, globose, not compressed, smooth, marginal wing absent, appendage absent. x = 11 [12]. Introduced; temperate
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longitudinally fissured. Winter bud-scales 1, enclosed by petiole wings, compressed, 2–5 mm, silvery-pubescent. Leaves: petiole 2–15 mm, wing 1–2 mm wide;
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longer than 3 mm, thinner than 1 mm. Spikelets pedicellate, laterally compressed, with 2-22 florets; disarticulation above the glumes and between the florets
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internodes less than M as long as the spikelets; spikelets subequal, strongly compressed dorsally, staminate or sterile, unawned; lower glumes membranous, 2-keeled
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with several blunt to acute ridges and sulcate, subterete to slightly compressed, to 2 times as wide as thick, (5–) 10–40 cm × 0.5–1.2 mm, firm to hard
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triangular. Cypselae (brownish) prismatic or narrowly turbinate, slightly compressed to subcylindric, 5–7 mm, 5 (–8) -ribbed, faces strigose to scabrous or
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least distal 1/2). Cypselae terete to narrowly obconic, sometimes somewhat compressed (bases distinctly stipitate), 4–10-ribbed (ribs darkened, translucent
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disarticulation at the base of the stipes. Spikelets 1-5 mm, weakly laterally compressed, with 1 bisexual floret; rachillas not prolonged beyond the base of the
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slender to stout, erect or the bases slightly decumbent, terete or weakly compressed; nodes terete, 0-2 exserted. Sheaths closed for 1/10-1/4 their length
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and beneath the upper florets. Spikelets solitary, subsessile, dorsally compressed, unequally convex, in 2 rows, the lower glumes and lemmas appressed or
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Copyright: Flora of North America Association Rhizomes present. Cauline stems compressed, without spots, 10–35 cm; glands absent. Turions absent. Leaves both submersed
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spikes, 4-12 cm long including the awns, 0.6-2 cm wide excluding the awns, compressed, dense, with 1 spikelet per node; rachis internodes flat, margins ciliate
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sessile spikelets, ovate; lower glumes dorsally compressed, 5-9-veined; upper glumes laterally compressed, 5-7-veined; lower florets sterile; upper florets
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cespitose, to 110 cm. Roots basal, 1.5–4 mm diam. Stems unbranched, straight, compressed, to 60 cm. Leaves 5–13; petiole 20–36 mm; blade elliptic, obtuse, middle
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pistillate; tepals 5, membranaceous; stamens 3. Utricles orbicular to compressed-obovoid, 1.1–1.5 mm, shorter than tepals, smooth to tuberculate in distal
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bearing 2-4 subsessile or pedicellate spikelets. Spikelets laterally compressed, with 2-10 florets; lower florets bisexual or pistillate; terminal florets
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panicles, 1-sided, usually exceeded by the leaves. Spikelets laterally compressed, subsessile to pedicellate; pedicels 0.5-1 mm long, 0.5-0.8 mm thick,
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the nodes. Leaves basal and cauline; sheaths open, somewhat laterally compressed; ligules scarious; pseudopetioles absent; blades flat or folded at the
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present, bisexual; often proliferous, ellipsoid or obovoid, laterally compressed, 1.7–3.9 × 1.2–2 mm, apex acute; proximal scale empty or with a flower
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rhizomes to 200 cm. Culms to 25 cm apart, 1 (–3) together, terete (scarcely compressed in drying), occasionally trigonous for apical 1/3, 40–140 (–200) cm, 4–12
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truncate, often lacerate; blades flat or involute. Inflorescences laterally compressed, distichous spikes; middle internodes 2-4 mm, with 1 spikelet per node
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becoming loosely appressed to the rachises. Spikelets pedicellate, laterally compressed, with 2 florets, lower florets staminate, upper florets pistillate or
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of the fused pedicels. Fertile spikelets terete to somewhat laterally compressed, with 2 florets, 1 bisexual, the other a rudiment, borne on long rachilla
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inflorescences also present in the upper sheaths. Spikelets laterally compressed, purplish, with 2-5 florets; sterile florets above the fertile florets;
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wiry, bases straight or slightly decumbent; nodes terete or slightly compressed, usually 0-1 exserted, top node at 1/10-1/3 the culm length. Sheaths closed
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15-70 cm, sometimes stout, erect or the bases decumbent, terete or weakly compressed; nodes terete, 0-1 exserted. Sheaths closed for about 1/3 their length
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globose, cruciate to ± 4-lobed, splitting into (2–) 4 mericarps; mericarps compressed to ± flattened, concave, or ± rounded, adaxially rounded, sometimes with
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fugaceous, 5–10 mm, membranous, not fibrous. Culms terete to markedly compressed, to 3 times wider than thick, often with to 25 blunt ridges when dry,
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pepos, whitish, ellipsoid-ovoid, compressed, dry at maturity, smooth, glabrous, indehiscent. Seeds 1, ovoid, compressed, not arillate, margins not differentiated
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strongly compressed; nodes strongly compressed, some proximal nodes usually exserted. Sheaths closed for 1/10 – 1/5 their length, distinctly compressed, bases
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yellow-orange or deep red, 2.2–3.5. Cypselae oblong-lanceoloid, somewhat compressed, 0.4–1 mm, faintly nerved, glabrous. Generated Map Legacy Map Alta., B
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adnate only at base, callus boatshaped; pollinia 4, obovoid, laterally compressed, subequal; caudicles 4 in 2 pairs; column winged; rostellum semiorbiculate
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present. Pedicels absent. Flowers 1–3 mm diam.; hypanthium urceolate, compressed at mouth, 1–3 mm, glabrous; sepals 4, ascending to spreading, ovate, margins
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included, 13–15 mm, indurate in fruit, stigma recurved. Capsules ovoid, compressed apically, 11–15 mm, indurate. Seeds 3–4 mm, surface tuberculate, circumalate
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fleshy, edible, indehiscent; valves absent. Seeds to 1000, brown, obovoid, compressed, shiny, slightly tuberculate; arils absent. Introduced; s Africa, also
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0-0.6 mm; body nearly globose to obovoid to obliquely obovate, laterally compressed, somewhat inflated and papery, 4-7 (-8) mm, glabrous to glandular, often
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Elizabeth Zimmerman Copyright: Flora of North America Association Culms compressed, 2–5 times as wide as thick, 0.5–1.8 mm wide. Distal leaf-sheaths without
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1–20 cm × 1–4 mm. Spikelets commonly proliferous, 2–6, linear to oblong, compressed, 3–24 × 2–2.5 mm; floral scales 3–20 (–50), reddish-brown, laterally 1–3-ribbed
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horizontal, flat, 12–40 (–50) cm × 2–7 mm. Spikelets (25–) 35–50 (–60), ovoid, compressed, (3.5–) 5–12 (–14) × 2.5–3.5 (–4) mm; floral scales 10–32, golden brown
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V-shaped, 3–6 cm × 1–3 mm. Spikelets 1–3 (–6), narrowly ellipsoid, weakly compressed, 5–10 × 2 mm; floral scales 8–16, laterally whitish or dull stramineous
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Ray-florets 7–15. Disc-florets 5–30, functionally staminate. Ray cypselae compressed, 3–5 mm. Disc pappi 5–8 linear, lanceolate, or quadrate, fimbrillate or
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stigmas 2 (–3). Fruiting structures: fruiting bracts absent; achenes ovate-compressed; pericarp free, membranous. Seeds horizontal, lenticular; seed-coat brownish
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cells surrounded by a circle of thin-walled, hyaline cells; operculum compressed-conic, with elongated oblique beak; peristome none; columella apex flattened
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Seeds 100–200, black or dark [light] reddish-brown [ochre or whitish], compressed [globose], often with 1 straight edge, 1 mm, smooth to rough with minute
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4–18 per ovary; style absent; stigma capitate. Seeds biseriate, slightly compressed, not winged, oblong; seed-coat not mucilaginous when wetted; cotyledons
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absent. Seeds 35–55, brown, reniform with deep abaxial groove, laterally compressed, papillate, marginal wing absent, appendage absent. x = 19. Introduced; Europe
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faces evenly papillate, finely rugulose or level; tubercle a small, dark, compressed-conic button. Generated Map Legacy Map Ala., Fla., Ga., La., Miss., N
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nearly sessile; stipe 0.1-0.2 mm; body oblique-obovate, strongly laterally compressed, 4-5 mm, glabrous, glaucous, prominently 3-veined on each side, veins
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(ray) triquetrous-prismatic to clavate, ± tuberculate or ridged; (disc) compressed, often winged, ± smooth. x = 9. Introduced; s Africa Species 7–18+ (2
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3-4 mm; pistils (2-) 5 (-7), fusiform. Berries 3-6 cm. Seeds 1-1.5 cm, ± compressed laterally. Phenology: Flowering spring, all year as disturbance reaction
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suborbiculate, 1.4–2.5 (–4) mm; ovaries hairy. Drupes gray to redbrown, ovoid, ± compressed, 7–15 mm, densely puberulent; hypanthium tardily deciduous; mesocarps
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once-branched panicles. Fruiting bracteoles sessile, orbiculate, greatly compressed, 1.3–4 mm, about as wide, margin crenate, apex rounded. Seeds brown, 1–1
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6-12; stipe 0.3-1.5 mm; body obliquely obovate to half-rhombic, strongly compressed, (4-) 5-6 × 3-4 mm, abaxial margin straight, glabrous or glandular-puberulent
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style 0.1–0.4 mm. Capsules 15–45 × 1–3 mm, smooth. Seeds silver-gray, compressed, 2–3 × 1–1.5 mm, smooth. 2n = 32. Phenology: Flowering spring–summer.
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basal nodes minutely hairy, distinct portions minute. Cypselae oblong, compressed, (apices denticulate), faces ribbed, wrinkled, with long, ascending hairs
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exserted, yellow, equal in size and length; style exserted, 8–10 mm. Capsules compressed-ellipsoid, 7–8 x 3–4 mm. Seeds 1–2 mm, reticulate. 2n = 18, 20. Phenology:
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cylindric throats, lobes 5, lance-linear. Cypselae (within perigynia) weakly compressed, obliquely obovoid or arcuate (glabrous); pappi 0, or coroniform (of distinct
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just below the spikelets. Spikelets with 1 floret, slightly laterally compressed, grayish-green; disarticulation above the glumes. Glumes subequal, ovate
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loculicidal at apex of angles. Seeds 2–5, black, ribbed, triangular to compressed and reniform, 1 mm, shiny, tuberculate; arils absent. Introduced; s Africa
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ellipsoid-obovoid [ovoid to obovoid or broadly ellipsoid], biconvex [compressed], not arillate, margins a broad, flat, light-colored band, surface smooth
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sometimes separating, then endocarp persistent. Seeds many, black, ± compressed, circular-reniform, ca. 1 mm, strophiolate; seed-coat lustrous, minutely
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perennial, monocarpic, not viviparous, 0.8–2.5 dm, glabrous. Stems erect, (compressed), not branched, succulent. Leaves persistent, forming basal rosette, alternate
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nearly so; stipe terete, 0-0.2 mm; body ovoid to ellipsoid, not laterally compressed, 3.5-5 mm, glabrous, very strongly veined, veins not anastomosing-reticulate;
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lanceolate. Cypselae fusiform or fusiform-obconic (bases stipitate), slightly compressed, 5–8-nerved with 2 thicker lateral nerves, faces ± densely gland-dotted
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(claw undifferentiated from blade). Fruits (erect), ellipsoid to obovoid, compressed at apex and sometimes margins (strongly latiseptate), (5–) 6–9 mm, (apex
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style-branch appendages deltate. Cypselae oblong to elliptic or obovate, compressed, margins thickened, riblike, faces glabrous, ± strigillose (hairs 0.05–0
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loculicidal, perianth and styles generally persistent. Seeds (1–) 2 per locule, compressed, usually winged unilaterally, bilaterally, or with wings expanded circumferentially;
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florets 2–10; corolla lobes 4–5, ± equal. Cypselae brown, dimorphic: outer compressed to obcompressed, obovoid to ± cylindric, straight or curved, longer than
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styles glabrous proximal to branches). Ray cypselae (black) terete to ± compressed, weakly arcuate, gibbous or not, beaked or beakless, glabrous; pappi 0
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sometimes disarticulating first. Spikelets pedicellate, 2.1-9.5 mm, laterally compressed, with 2-3 florets; rachillas glabrous or pubescent, prolonged beyond the
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Cypselae: of ray fusiform to obovoid, of disc fusiform to clavate or obovoid, compressed, 5–18-nerved, faces sparsely to densely appressed-hairy (disc glabrate
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relatively thin-walled nuts, nearly globose to ovoid, somewhat laterally compressed, longitudinally ribbed. x = 11. Throughout north temperate zone, North
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Fruits (sessile or substipitate), subglobose, obovoid, or ellipsoid, compressed (sometimes slightly angustiseptate), 3–9 mm, (rigid, apex truncate, retuse
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reflexed, short-stipitate; stipe 0.4-1.2 mm; body fusiform, not laterally compressed, (4-) 6-9 (-10) mm, tapering at both ends, glandular, strongly 3-veined
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solitary, strongly imbricate, appressed to somewhat divergent, dorsally compressed, with 2-6 florets, lowest floret bisexual, elongate, remaining florets
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style-branch appendages obtuse to truncate. Cypselae (brownish) obovoid, compressed, 2-ribbed, faces sparsely strigose; pappi persistent, in (1–) 2 series
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spikelets; disarticulation beneath the glumes. Spikelets 3-4 mm, laterally compressed neither subtended by bristles nor sunken into the rachis, elliptic, obovoid
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light to dark-brown or rusty red, spherical to obovoid, urn becoming compressed basally and columella with attached operculum appearing exserted when
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appendages lanceolate. Cypselae narrowly to broadly obovoid, slightly compressed, 8–18-ribbed, faces sparsely to densely hairy (hairs antrorse or appressed);
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narrowly lanceolate. Cypselae (tan to reddish-brown) turbinate, slightly compressed, 8–10 ribbed, hairy; pappi persistent, of 30–50 whitish, barbellate, apically
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depauperate specimens), exserted well above the leaves. Spikelets laterally compressed, with 3-20 florets, distal florets staminate or sterile; disarticulation
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scabrous or smooth; disarticulation below the glumes. Spikelets laterally compressed, with 1 floret, rarely with a second rudimentary or fertile floret; rachillas
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terminal; disarticulation below the spikelets. Spikelets unisexual, laterally compressed to subterete, with 1 floret. Glumes absent; calluses glabrous; lemmas
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apices acute or attenuate). Cypselae (purplish black, often mottled) ± compressed, often obpyramidal (usually strigose, sometimes glabrous); pappi 0, or
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abruptly expanded throats, lobes 5, triangular. Cypselae (black) strongly compressed, narrowly cuneate (margins ± white, long-ciliate, faces ± hairy); pappi
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lines [0]. Cypselae ± prismatic to terete [ellipsoid, obovoid], weakly compressed, 3–4-angled, glabrous (shining); pappi 0. Introduced; mostly New World
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Fruiting bracteoles subsessile or short stipitate, orbiculate, strongly compressed, 2–4 mm and as wide, united except at thin margin, margin dentate, terminal
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Volume 26. Mentioned on page 107. Rhizomes ± erect, brownish, somewhat compressed-thickened, superficially bulblike, praemorse, not brittle. Scapes 1–3
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4–5 (spreading), deltate [with resin sacs]. Cypselae obconic, slightly compressed (usually asymmetric, apices oblique), ribs [3–] 5, faces glabrous, smooth
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lanceolate-acute. Cypselae (brownish) obovoid to oblanceoloid-obovoid, compressed, 2-nerved (nerves marginal, usually thin, sometimes thick), faces smooth
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shorter than narrowly funnelform throats, lobes 5, deltate. Cypselae ± compressed, ± obpyramidal, ± 3-angled, sericeous to strigillose; pappi of 15–25+
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loosely contracted, somewhat 1-sided. Spikelets pedicellate, laterally compressed, with 2-6 florets; rachillas hairy, hairs 2-3 mm, prolonged beyond the
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more than 3 times the length of the internodes, divergent, laterally compressed, with 2-5 bisexual florets, sterile florets distal or absent. Glumes equal
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Seeds 2–6, reddish-brown to blackish, ellipsoid to reniform, laterally compressed, shiny, smooth to minutely tuberculate, marginal wing absent, appendage
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(thick-walled), 0–4-ribbed; disc broadly ellipsoid to clavate, ± radially compressed (thinner-walled), 5–9-ribbed; pappi persistent, of 30–40 brownish, unequal
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throats, 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);
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bracteosus], bilaterally symmetric, strongly bilabiate, dorsoventrally compressed, abaxial lobes 3, adaxial 2; stamens 4, adnate to middle of corolla, didynamous
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subulate. Cypselae of ray-florets oblanceoloid, cylindric to slightly compressed, 6–9-nerved, glabrous (disc ovaries 5–6-nerved); pappi persistent, of
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also with shorter hairs, rarely glabrous, indehiscent. Seeds 1, ovoid, compressed, not arillate, margins not differentiated but sometimes with 2 small swellings
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teeth; carpophore absent. Seeds ca. 30–60, black, reniform, laterally compressed, tuberculate, marginal wing absent, appendage absent; embryo peripheral
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round-ovate (semiorbiculate) to deltoid-rhombic or flabellate, slightly compressed, 3–5 mm and as broad, united to middle, deeply toothed, margin with acute
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lobes triangular, 0.5–1 mm. Cypselae brown, cylindric to obovoid, not compressed, 2.5–3.5 mm, ± 4-nerved, faces hairy; pappi whitish, 5–7 mm. Generated
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appendages linear-triangular. Cypselae (straw to brown) obconic-obovoid, compressed or triangular, smooth or slightly ribbed, faces short-strigose; pappi
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style-branch appendages acute to deltate. Cypselae fusiform-cylindric, slightly compressed, 5 (–6) -nerved, faces glabrous; pappi persistent, of 30–60 tawny, barbellate
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to triangular in side view, becoming light-brown at maturity, laterally compressed but the glumes and lemmas with broadly rounded backs, glumes and florets
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disarticulation beneath the glumes or not occurring. Spikelets laterally compressed, with 1 floret; florets bisexual. Lower glumes usually absent; upper glumes
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the branch axes; disarticulation below the glumes. Spikelets dorsally compressed, with 2 florets; lower florets sterile or staminate; upper florets sessile
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branches 0.5-27 cm, scabridulous. Spikelets 3-6.5 mm, pedicellate, laterally compressed, usually with 1 floret, rarely with 2; rachillas hairy or scabrous, sometimes
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loculicidal. Seeds 1 (or 2) per locule, brown or black, slightly laterally compressed, obovoid, obconic, or oblique, smooth or minutely granulate; endosperm
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appressed, with 1-3 (5) spikelets. Spikelets pedicellate, terete to dorsally compressed, with 1 floret; rachillas prolonged beyond the floret base, glabrous;
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11/5–2 times as long as sepals. Seeds 20–30, ashy brown, broadly reniform, compressed, 0.5–0.6 mm, dull, minutely or prominently rounded-tuberculate. Phenology:
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Seeds ca. 8–15, whitish, ovoid to lenticular or triangular, laterally compressed to angular, papillate or granular, marginal wing absent, appendage absent
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redbrown or brown, circular to oblong or elliptic, plump or laterally compressed, tuberculate, marginal wing absent, appendage absent. x = 8. w United
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long and short-shoots. Winter buds sessile, ovoid, somewhat laterally compressed, apex acute; scales many, imbricate, longitudinally striate. Leaves on
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styles 6–9, connate basally, unbranched. Fruits drupes. Seeds elliptic-compressed; caruncle absent. x = 11. Fla., Mexico, West Indies, Central America,
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capsular, 3-lobed, membranous, dehiscence loculicidal. Seeds black, angled [compressed or almost flat]. North America, South America Species ca. 19 (2 in the
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flowers: stigmas ± 2 mm, papillose. Berries transparent, globose, slightly compressed, thin-coriaceous, juicy. Tex., n Mexico Species 1. None. Phaulothamnus
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spatulate, 5-10 mm; style to ca. 1 mm. Capsules oblanceoloid, strongly compressed, 15-20 mm, glabrous. Seeds dark-brown, reticulate. 2n = 20. Phenology:
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absent; ovule 1; styles 0.2 mm; stigmas 2–3, subulate. Utricles somewhat compressed, broadly ovoid, coriaceous, indehiscent. Seeds 1, dark-brown, orbicular
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sepals caducous, peltate with attachment near base; corolla persistent, compressed-urceolate, becoming spongy; outer petals connate except at apex, base
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crowded. Flowers ca. 0.5 mm across. Achenes uniformly light-brown, slightly compressed, ovoid-cylindric, ca. 0.5 (-1.1) × 0.3 mm, smooth. Phenology: Flowering
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brown. Styles all or mostly 3-fid. Achenes dark to medium brown, obtusely compressed trigonous with broadly rounded abaxial angle or some biconvex in same
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glabrescent, glanddotted. Fruits plumply ellipsoid to fusiform, weakly compressed, 7–9+ mm, 5–7-ribbed, lacking terminal spines, prickles ± uncinate, mostly
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4-lobed; stigmas 2, filiform. Fruits utricles, enclosed by enlarged, compressed perianth; pericarp appressed to seed, thinly membranous. Seeds vertical
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1–2, exserted; stigmas 2 (–3), usually distinct. Fruits utricles, ovoid, compressed; pericarp free, membranous. Seeds erect, brown or reddish-brown, oblong
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short-pedicellate; tepals connate basally, white, oblong, dorsiventrally compressed, thickened basally, 3–5 mm, chartaceous, apex of outer tepals obtuse,
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stalked, 1-locular, ovoid, tubercular; styles 2, reflexed. Fruits stalked, compressed, ca. 8 mm, leathery, hirtellous, covered with irregular warty excrescences
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Fruits capsular, light tan, obovoid to suborbicular, gibbous, slightly compressed, beaked, dry, thin-walled, sparsely short-echinate or subaculeate, spinules
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strongly divergent; disarticulation beneath the glumes. Spikelets laterally compressed, with 1 floret. Glumes unequal, strongly keeled; lower glumes shorter
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sometimes terrestrial, cespitose, to 3 m. Stems: pseudobulbs laterally compressed, 1–2 cm. Leaves from apex of pseudobulb, green, sometimes spotted or suffused
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lanceolate, 3-7 (8) -veined; florets globose to fusiform, terete to laterally compressed; calluses well developed, sharp or blunt, glabrous or antrorsely strigose
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Achenes not persistent, dark yellow or medium brown, obovoid to obpyriform, compressed trigonous, or some thickly biconvex, angles evident, 1.1–1.5 × 0.95–1
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late in the season, beneath the glumes. Spikelets strongly laterally compressed, bases usually U-shaped, sometimes cuneate, with 1 floret; rachillas glabrous
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± spreading, triangular, 0.4–1.2 mm. Cypselae gray or tan, obovoid, ± compressed, 1.5–2 mm, 4–5-nerved, faces sparsely strigillose; pappi white to sordid
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lobes triangular, 0.4–1 mm. Cypselae brown, cylindric to obovoid, not compressed, 2.5–4 mm, 3–4-nerved, faces hairy; pappi white to tawny, 5–8 mm. Generated
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Cypselae light-brown to purple, narrowly obovoid to fusiform, sometimes ± compressed, (1.2–) 1.5–2.7 (–3) mm, 5-nerved, faces sparsely strigillose; pappi white
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Seeds 4–36, brown to black, reniform to snail-shell-shaped, laterally compressed, tuberculate, marginal wing absent, appendages absent; embryo peripheral
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extravaginal. Culms (15) 20-115 cm tall, 2-3 mm thick, terete or weakly compressed. Sheaths closed for V5-1/3 their length, sometimes fused by a hyaline
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cormlike bases, slightly compressed, erect or geniculate at the lower nodes; nodes glabrous or pilose; internodes slightly compressed, glabrous. Sheaths longer
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rhizomes with swollen, villous nodes. Culms 20-80 cm, often in small clumps, compressed, erect or decumbent, glaucous; lower nodes pubescent; upper nodes glabrous
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coarse fibers, 5–10 mm, membranous to papery. Culms subterete to sometimes compressed, to (2–) 3 times as wide as thick, often with (4–) 5–10 ridges or angles
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decaying to coarse fibers, 5–12 mm, papery. Culms subterete to greatly compressed, to 5 times as wide as thick, often with 2–12 ridges, 8–45 cm × (0.2–)
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tubular extension above blade junction; ligules to 4 mm; culms not easily compressed, proximal sheaths bladeless. Carex oklahomensis 8 Sheath fronts rugose
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Basal branching intra and extravaginal. Culms 20-85 cm, terete or weakly compressed. Sheaths closed firmly for 1/7 -1/3 their length, sometimes for a longer
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the base, terete or weakly compressed; nodes terete, 0-1 exserted. Sheaths closed for about 1/2 their length, slightly compressed, distinctly keeled, glabrous
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decumbent, terete or weakly compressed; nodes terete, 1-3 exserted. Sheaths closed for 1/2 - 9/10 their length, compressed, smooth, glabrous, bases of
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decumbent, terete or weakly compressed; nodes terete, 0-1 exserted. Sheaths closed for 1/3 – 7/8 their length, terete to slightly compressed, smooth, glabrous,
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50-120 cm, stout. Sheaths closed for 1/2 - 3/4 their length, distinctly compressed, keels winged, bases of basal sheaths glabrous; ligules 1-2 mm, smooth
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cespitose, sometimes with short rhizomes. Culms to 2.1+ m, bases laterally compressed; internodes hollow; nodes glabrous. Leaves mostly basal, glabrous; sheaths
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some pedicels and branches, elliptic to lanceolate, strongly laterally compressed, not crowded or overlapping, with 6-11 florets. Glumes smooth or scabrous;
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the branches and pedicels, elliptic to lanceolate, strongly laterally compressed, crowded, overlapping, with 3-7 florets. Glumes pubescent; lower glumes
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cespitose, rhizomatous, rhizomes short, slender. Culms slender, often compressed. Sheaths usually keeled; ligules minute, membranous, often erose or ciliate;
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panicles, some branches longer than 1 cm. Spikelets pedicellate, laterally compressed, with 3-4 florets; rachillas prolonged beyond the base of the distal floret
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distributed. Spikelets 18-25 mm, elliptic to lanceolate, strongly laterally compressed, with 4-8 florets. Glumes subequal, smooth or scabrous; lower glumes 8-12
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the tips. Spikelets 25-40 mm, elliptic to lanceolate, strongly laterally compressed, with 3-6 florets. Glumes glabrous or pubescent; lower glumes 9-13 mm
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stoloniferous. Culms 10-60 cm, usually compressed; internodes solid. Leaves cauline; sheaths shorter than the internodes, compressed; ligules membranous and ciliate
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scaly; anthers without hairs. Fruits brown, bronze, or black, obovoid, compressed, 1.5-3 × 1.5-2.5 cm; husks rough, 1 mm thick, dehiscing to base or nearly
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terminal spikelets bisexual or pistillate. Spikelets pedicellate, laterally compressed, with 1-3 (4) florets, the terminal or only floret usually sexual, lower
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wings hyaline, 0.6 mm wide. Spikelets 3–18 (–28), oblong-lanceoloid, compressed, 3–12 × 1.8–2.5 mm; floral scales deciduous, 2–11, yellowish-brown to
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pistillate or at tips of inflorescences; tepals 5; stamens 5. Utricles compressed, subglobose, 1.7–2 mm, ± equaling or slightly exceeding tepals, muricate
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Staminate corollas 0.8–1.6 mm, lobes mostly 5. Cypselae narrowly obovoid, ± compressed, 0.8–1.9 mm. 2n = 28. Generated Map Legacy Map Alta., B.C., Sask., Calif
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