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  • 632. Shrubs or trees, 5–70 (–100) dm, usually main trunk dominant. Stems: trunk bark usually dark-brown to dark gray or black, sometimes ashy gray, highly
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  • 3-beaked. Seeds (50–200), usually dark-brown, ovoid, smooth, wrinkled, or tuberculate. x = 7. w North America Tellima R. Brown [unranked] Lithophragma Nuttall
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  • or gold 0.15–0.3 mm wide, apex usually acute. Anthers long-persistent. Perigynia appressed to ascending, usually dark-brown, often green or gold distally
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  • America Association Trees to 50 m; trunk to 4 m diam. Bark usually dark reddish-brown to light-brown with shallow furrows. Branchlets mostly with leaves in
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  • indurate, usually broadly elliptic to obovate, margins enclosing the edges of the paleas, apices obtuse, somewhat woolly-pubescent, usually dark-brown at maturity;
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  • Leaves monomorphic to somewhat dimorphic, crowded, 8–35 cm. Petiole usually dark reddish-brown, with single groove adaxially, glabrous, with single vascular-bundle
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  • Myers Copyright: Flora of North America Association Creeping roots usually dark-brown or black, with scaly adventitious-buds. Stems ± cobwebby-tomentose
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  • vernation noncircinate. Petiole usually dark-brown, rounded adaxially. Blade ovate-deltate to oblong-lanceolate, usually 4-pinnate at base, 1.5–8 cm wide;
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  • of stem. Leaves scattered, 7–30 cm; vernation noncircinate. Petiole usually dark-brown, rounded adaxially. Blade lanceolate to ovate-deltate, 3–4-pinnate
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  • 1-year old usually golden green to tan, sometimes deep reddish-brown or gray-brown, older graying; thorns on twigs usually numerous, usually ± recurved
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  • pubescent basally; anthers red to maroon, oblong to oval. Achenes usually included, dark-brown to deep maroon, not winged, globose-lenticular, glabrous. Seeds:
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  • moderately frequent, straight to recurved, 1-year old usually dark reddish-brown to blackish, usually shiny, usually slender, 2.5–5 cm. Leaves: petiole length (16–)
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  • spikes 8–22.5 × 1.4–4.6 mm. Scales: pistillate scales pale or usually dark reddish-brown, with narrow white margins, ovate to lanceolate, 2.7–4.3 × 0.8–2
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  • saccate basally, (setulose proximal to apex); petals yellow (usually with dark-brown, maroon, or purple veins), obovate, claw differentiated from blade, (apex
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  • glabrous adaxially; scales concolored to obscurely bicolored, usually dark reddish-brown throughout, broadly ovatelanceolate, clathrate, more than 0.5
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  • 8–45 cm; vernation noncircinate. Petiole usually dark-brown, rounded adaxially. Blade oblong-lanceolate, usually 4-pinnate at base, 1.5–8 cm wide; rachis
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  • persistent. Leaves clustered, 7–30 cm; vernation noncircinate. Petiole usually dark-brown, rounded adaxially. Blade oblong-lanceolate to ovate, 3–4-pinnate
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  • of stem. Leaves scattered, 7–35 cm; vernation noncircinate. Petiole usually dark-brown, rounded adaxially. Blade oblong-lanceolate, 3–4-pinnate at base,
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  • of stem. Leaves scattered, 7–30 cm; vernation noncircinate. Petiole usually dark-brown, rounded adaxially. Blade oblong-lanceolate to ovate-deltate, 4-pinnate
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  • bases of leaves hard, leathery, usually dark-brown or castaneous; sheaths distally bristlyciliate, backs chestnut-brown, glabrous; ligule absent; blades
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  • conduplicate, usually rectangular-oblong, usually ± 3-toothed, sometimes entire, apices sometimes reddish or purplish). Ray-florets usually 5–30+ (–100+
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  • 121. Mentioned on page 8, 124, 126, 131, 137. Herbs, annual or perennial, usually cespitose, rhizomatous or not. Culms sometimes solitary, scapose, stiff
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  • Plants usually on rock. Stems compact to long-creeping, ascending to horizontal, usually branched; scales brown to black or often bicolored with dark central
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  • Association Stems short-creeping, usually 2–4 mm diam.; scales usually uniformly dark-brown to black or rarely with narrow, light-brown margins, linear-lanceolate
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  • suborbiculate to broadly ovate, ovatelanceolate, reniform, or triangular, usually deeply to shallowly palmately (3–) 5 (–7) -lobed, sometimes unlobed or 2-lobed
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  • 3–10 × 1.1–2.3 mm. Scales: pistillate scales pale to, usually, dark reddish-brown to purplish brown, with similarly colored or narrow white margins, ovate
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  • subequal, largest tubercle almost as wide as inner tepal. Achenes usually dark reddish-brown, 1.5–1.8 × 1–1.4 mm. 2n = 20. Phenology: Flowering early summer–early
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  • 1–2.8 cm, margins dentate, oil cells on abaxial surface conspicuous, usually dark-brown. Flowers: petals 4–5.5 (–8) mm. Capsules 16–38 mm. Phenology: Flowering
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  • whenever Cystopteris species occur together, hybridization is likely; hybrids usually have shriveled and malformed spores. (2) Species of Cystopteris frequently
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  • trunks 1–few, usually ± erect, bark plated, ± exfoliating; compound thorns on trunks sometimes present; thorns on twigs determinate, usually numerous, straight
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  • 6.5–7.2 mm, lobes yellow; anthers usually dark-brown to black (rarely reddish-brown), appendages dark or reddish-brown. Cypselae 3.5–5 mm; pappi of 2 aristate
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  • reddish-pubescent for 1–2 years. Buds hidden by leaves or exposed, usually dark-brown, ovoid, small, not resinous or with resin drop near tip, apex rounded;
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  • acute-acuminate (mid phyllaries ± keeled near apices), inner oblong, laminae usually dark-brown, sometimes purplish (at stereome-lamina junction), apices rounded
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  • ovoid or ovoid-elliptic, (15–) 20–50 cm, smooth, flesh usually white, sweet. Seeds usually dark-brown to black, sometimes whitish, ovate to ovate-elliptic
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  • 15–30 mm. Disc-florets 40+; corollas 4.2–5.5 mm, lobes yellow; anthers usually dark-brown to black, appendages yellow. Cypselae 3–3.6 mm, glabrate; pappi of
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  • plane as the radial spines, dull white to dark gray or reddish-brown to dark-brown, usually with dark-brown to purplish black tips; inner central spine
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  • then 1 much larger, almost as wide as inner tepals). Achenes usually dark reddish-brown to almost black, 1.25–1.5 (–1.8) × 1–1.3 mm. 2n = 20. Phenology:
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  • at least on distal body, pithlike tissue usually present in proximal perigynium walls; beak usually dark-brown at tip, cylindric, unwinged, ± entire for
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  • straight, erect, ascending to deflexed, yellow to dark-brown to black, turning gray, pink-gray to gray-brown, longest (35–) 40–90 (–185) mm; if ± 2 kinds:
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  • striate below the nodes. Sheaths usually shorter than the internodes, smooth or scabridulous, usually with dark-brown necrotic spots, flat and spreading
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  • mm; stamens 3 or 6, anthers 1/2–3/4 filament length. Capsules usually exserted, dark-brown, 1-locular, ovoid to oblong, (3.2–) 3.5–6.1 mm, apex acute to
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  • pubescent or glabrous, 1-year old usually shiny, dark-brown, older gray; thorns on twigs 1-year old shiny, deep brown to blackish, often black-tipped, stout
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  • corollas (usually present) usually yellow to orange, sometimes ochroleucous or cyanic to reddish, purplish, or brown. Disc (inner) florets usually bisexual
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  • perennial; usually rhizomatous, often cespitose, sometimes mat-forming, rarely stoloniferous. Culms 2-300 cm, erect, geniculate, or decumbent, usually herbaceous
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  • reddish tinged, glabrous, 1-year old usually shiny, dark-brown, older gray; thorns on twigs 1-year old shiny, deep brown to blackish, often black-tipped, stout
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  • constitute an involucre, usually number 5–21(–50+), usually are unequal (outermost usually shorter than the inner), and usually are arranged ± imbricately
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  • variously ornamented (usually cristate or rugose). Gametophytes green, aboveground, obcordate to reniform, sometimes asymmetric, usually glabrous (glandular-farinose
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  • dehiscence septicidal between beaks. Seeds 5–200, tan, brown, dark-brown, black, yellowish-brown, reddish-brown, or red, rarely winged (Astilbe, Jepsonia, Sullivantia)
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  • inflorescences were usually spicate or racemose, although more complex inflorescences occurred, especially in Asia. Subgenus Indocarex usually had bisexual spikes
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  • when usually dark, but freshly exposed ± russet, sometimes deeply corrugated and dark gray-brown, or smooth, thin and exfoliating, when usually pale,
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  • falling, usually 8–40+ in 2–4+ series, usually distinct, usually lanceolate, linear, orbiculate, or ovate, subequal or unequal (outer usually shorter,
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  • present or often absent. Seeds 1–60+, yellowish or tan to dark red or often brown or black, usually reniform or triangular to circular and laterally compressed
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  • ultimate margins entire or toothed, faces usually hairy (often hispid to scabrellous), often glanddotted. Heads usually radiate, sometimes discoid, borne singly
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  • Drupes red, reddish-brown, or brown, globose or depressed-globose, (exocarp coriaceous, rarely thin), smooth, (mesocarp usually dry, mealy, rarely absent
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  • faces usually hairy and glandular (glands sometimes elaborate, apices sometimes gland or spine-tipped). Heads usually radiate, rarely discoid, usually in
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  • cymiform, or paniculiform arrays. Calyculi usually of 3–8 (–21+) bractlets or bracts (usually ± herbaceous, usually shorter than phyllaries and/or reflexed
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  • large, lax to dense, in tufts or mats, dark green, yellow-green, golden green, or orange, sometimes reddish-brown or nearly black, often lustrous. Stems
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  • 43. Plants small to large, in tufts, cushions, or mats, dark green, reddish-brown, or olive brown, dull. Stems erect-ascending and often 2-fid, or creeping
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  • sides prominently veined or not; beak terminal, straight, 2-4 mm. Seeds dark-brown to black (often appearing white because of air in seed-coat cells), rectangular
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  • stramineous to dark-brown, margins scarious, involute, clasping the paleas; upper paleas indurate, smooth to slightly rugose, stramineous to dark-brown. Caryopses
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  • 3–25+, neuter; corollas yellow or orange, brown-purple, maroon, or reddish, sometimes bicolor (orange, brown-purple, maroon, or reddish plus yellow, laminae
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  • promptly drying. Seeds (0–) 5–3000+, yellowish, reddish, brown, black, or appearing tan or whitish (dark testa completely covered by pale, tough, glabrous or
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  • or hairy. Stems 1–20+; bark reddish, reddish-brown, gray-brown, or dark gray; long and short-shoots usually present; thorns present or absent. Leaves deciduous
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  • groups); staminate usually of 10–20+ (usually ± clavate, sometimes capillary, barbellate to barbellulate) bristles; pistillate usually of 12–20+ (capillary
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  • valvate or circumscissile, or drupaceous. Seeds 1–45, brown, reddish-brown, black, or white, usually angular; embryo straight or curved; endosperm copious
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  • post-mature petals pale paper brown; stamens (5–) 10 or 20 (–47), rarely ca. 15, anthers pink to purple or white to cream. Pomes usually red, sometimes yellow
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  • Plants usually on rock. Stems compact to long-creeping, ascending to horizontal, usually branched; scales brown to tan or often bicolored with dark, central
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  • anatropous or campylotropous, bitegmic, usually crassinucellate, rarely tenuinucellate. Fruits usually capsular, usually 2-valved ((3 or) 4 (–6) in Rorippa
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  • tardily dehiscent (D. pictus). Seeds 100–2000, yellow to olive green or dark-brown, ovoid to oblong, flattened, wings absent. x = 8, 9, 10. w United States
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  • vines), perennial, deciduous or evergreen, usually autotrophic, sometimes mycotrophic (subfam. Monotropoideae), usually chlorophyllous and autotrophic, sometimes
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  • subterranean, usually green and photosynthetic, some without chlorophyll and saprophytic. Roots subterranean or aerial, tuberoid or stolonoid, usually with spongy
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  • ovate to lanceolate, usually petaloid and glabrous; petals 3, distinct, usually longer and broader than sepals, sometimes clawed, usually hairy adaxially,
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  • Eleocharis sect. Parvulae), terminating rhizomes or among culm bases. Culms usually spongy with incomplete transverse septa, seldom hollow with complete transverse
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  • Treatment appears in FNA Volume 23. Plants usually densely cespitose, rarely colonial, short-rhizomatous. Culms brown at base. Leaves: basal sheaths somewhat
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  • distinct, (usually green to whitish green, rarely stramineous) ovate to lanceolate, unequal, margins and apices (usually green or white, rarely dark-brown or black)
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  • cespitose or not, often scaly-rhizomatous. Culms procumbent to erect, usually trigonous, wiry to stout. Leaves basal and cauline, polystichous, mostly
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  • stoloniferous; roots brown or black without yellowbrown felty covering. Culms purple or red at base. Leaves: basal sheaths usually fibrous; sheath fronts
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  • apices spreading to erect, usually spine-tipped, innermost usually with erect, flat, often twisted, entire or dentate, usually spineless apices (distal portion
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  • fimbriate or plumose. Achenes included in accrescent and usually veiny perianth, tan to dark-brown, unwinged to weakly winged, 3-gonous, sometimes compressed-3-gonous
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  • yellow to brown, redbrown to gray, or black, sometimes partly to wholly white chalky (chalkiness disappearing when wet), aging gray to dark-brown to black
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  • teeth to divided to base, or a usually indehiscent utricle; carpophore sometimes present. Seeds 1-150 (-500+), often brown or black, sometimes white or yellowish
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  • pneumatophores, usually branched. Leaves cauline, usually alternate, rarely opposite; stipules present, often deciduous, usually dark reddish green; usually petiolate
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  • (1–) 3–6 (–30) bristles and/or scales, usually falling off with fruit; stamens usually (1–) 3, rarely more, usually distinct; anthers basifixed; pistils
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  • internodes usually hollow. Sheaths usually open for most of their length, sometimes closed; collars without tufts of hair on the sides; auricles usually absent;
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  • FNA Volume 23. Plants cespitose or not, short to long rhizomatous. Culms brown or redbrown at base. Leaves: basal sheaths fibrous or not; sheath fronts
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  • Bark gray to dark-brown or black, smooth or furrowed. Leaf-blade lobed or unlobed, margins entire or toothed, teeth if present usually bristle-tipped
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  • purplish brown, pink, or red, spheric to narrowly obovoid, usually 20–30 mm, juicy, drying quickly, scales minute; areoles spiny, spine clusters usually deciduous
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  • thorn-tipped or not. Leaves alternate; stipules deciduous, thin; blade usually herbaceous, sometimes leathery, margins entire or teeth gland-tipped, at
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  • [–180] dm. Stems 1–25, erect, ascending, spreading to prostrate; bark usually dark gray, smooth; short-shoots present or absent; unarmed; glabrous or tomentose
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  • green, occasionally blackish green distally, yellowbrown to dark-brown proximally. Stems usually to 2 cm, occasionally branching; rounded-pentagonal in transverse-section
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  • capitate. Capsules: dehiscence loculicidal. Seeds 500–2000 (–5000), tan to dark-brown, rarely black, irregularly globular or ovoid to oblong-ellipsoid, prismatic
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  • fragmentation. Stems usually erect or decumbent; branches usually flexible at base, usually not glaucous, (dull to highly glossy). Buds usually alba-type, sometimes
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  • ovary superior, usually green, 3-locular or 6-locular with false septa, 6-lobed; style white to dark green, often thick; stigmas usually 3, sometimes 1
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  • forms, usually with distinct capitulum; green, whitish, pale, yellow-green to light brownish, rarely dark-colored. Stems green, brown, dark-brown to occasionally
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  • 637. Plants small to large, usually in stiff, loose mats, dark green to golden brown. Stems creeping or ascending, usually regularly 1–3-pinnate, not stipitate;
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  • terminal; stigmas 1, usually capitate (rarely truncate). Fruits capsular, dehiscence valvate or operculate. Seeds 1–200+, brown or black, angular or rounded
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  • distinct or connate; stigmas capitate. Achenes included or exserted, brown or dark-brown to black, not winged, discoid, biconvex, 2–3-gonous, or spheroidal
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  • monomorphic, base usually asymmetric, rarely symmetric, margins entire or variously toothed, surfaces glabrous or hairy; venation usually palmate or palmate
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  • apophyses, which at the time of seed-shed are cream to light brown or gray—rather than light red-brown. They are distinguished from each other as follows: P.
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  • reddish to dark or very dark-brown, rarely tan to chestnut, older gray or gray-brown, sometimes dark purple-brown; thorns on twigs usually few, straight
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  • sometimes toothed; cauline usually present, lobed or entire, usually reduced in size and lobing distally. Heads (erect) usually in cymiform, corymbiform
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  • Plants usually on rock. Stems short-creeping to compact, ascending to horizontal, usually branched; scales black or often bicolored with dark central
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  • terminal on green stems or, in some species, terminating special, reproductive, brown stems, composed of whorls of peltate sporophylls; cone apices rounded or
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  • seed-coat tan to dark-brown (red in I. foetidissima), thin, membranous, and smooth, or conspicuously roughened to extensively corky (usually in wetland species)
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  • twigs: new growth usually glabrous, sometimes pilose, 1-year old dark gray, pale-brown, tan, brown, or orangebrown, 2-years old usually medium pale gray;
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  • thorns on twigs usually frequent, straight to recurved, 2-years old usually dark gray, almost black, sometimes purple or chestnut-brown, usually slender, (1–)
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  • C. pauciflorus). Capsules usually horned (horns sometimes minute or weakly developed bulges), sometimes not horned, usually not crested (crested in C.
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  • red, usually connate to tip in bud, reflexed singly, in pairs, or all together to 1 side at anthesis; petals 4, usually lavender or pink to dark reddish
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  • cells, usually with internal phloem, abundant raphides in vegetative cells. Stems erect to decumbent or prostrate. Leaves usually deciduous, usually alternate
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  • gray, white, yellow, straw colored, red, reddish-brown, brown, pink to purplish-pink or black, usually of 2–3 distinct types, 1 or more hooked (rarely none
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  • dimorphic; stamens usually exserted, occasionally included; filaments pilose proximally, very rarely glabrous. Achenes light to dark-brown, not winged, 3-gonous
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  • deliquescent. Bark of trunks and branches dark-brown to chalky white, smooth, often exfoliating; lenticels dark, prominent, sometimes horizontally expanded
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  • arborescent]; caudex usually present when perennial. Stems present or absent, if present, erect, glabrous or hairy. Leaves usually basal, usually alternate, (cauline
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  • with recurved tips; carpophore absent. Seeds 30–150+, light to dark-brown, reddish-brown, or black, circular to angular, plump or laterally compressed,
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  • with purplish base. > 29 28 Petals usually maroon, reddish brown, pink, greenish maroon, purplish bronze, white, or brown throughout (except in pigment-free
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  • on page 9. Mentioned on page 8, 10, 44. Shrubs usually synoecious (R. diacanthum dioecious). Stems usually differentiated into short-shoots and long-shoots
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  • obovate-spatulate, 7–18 mm, apex usually emarginate, sometimes truncate or obcordate; filaments 2–7 mm; anthers usually cream or yellow, sometimes dark-pink, orange-red
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  • Woodsia oregana, Woodsia phillipsii, Woodsia plummerae, Woodsia scopulina R. Brown Prodr. 158. 1810. Michael D. Windham Common names: Cliff fern Etymology:
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  • indefinite duration usually decumbent and rooting at the lower nodes. Sheaths open; ligules membranous, sometimes ciliate; blades usually flat. Inflorescences
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  • whorled, or spiral, simple; stipules absent; petiole present or absent; blade usually not fleshy or leathery, rarely fleshy, leathery, or chartaceous, margins
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  • or perennial herbs, often evergreen, usually glandular-punctate or with secretory resin canals appearing as dark dots or streaks on vegetative and/or floral
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  • alternate, basally equitant; blade plane, ensiform, usually glabrous. Inflorescences rhipidiate, usually terminal (basal flowers occasionally produced in
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  • 1-year old deep reddish-brown, older gray; thorns on twigs usually numerous, usually recurved, 1-year old shiny, dark-brown to black, stout to slender
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  • Plants small to large, in dense or loose mats, glaucous, green, brown, or yellowish-brown, dull. Stems creeping, sparsely to profusely branched, irregularly
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  • moderate-sized, rarely robust, with distinct capitulum; green, brown, pink, red. Stems green, red or brown, superficial cortex of 2–4 layers of efibrillose, nonornamented
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  • 10–500 cm. Stems usually erect to ascending, rarely prostrate, fastigiately or intricately branched (bark typically tan to reddish-brown, becoming gray,
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  • 1–40 dm; usually rhizomatous. Stems 5–20+, usually erect to ascending or arching, sometimes spreading, prostrate, or decumbent; bark reddish to dark-brown
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  • scabrellous; bracts usually 3, connate basally, usually scalelike, sometimes semileaflike or leaflike. Peduncles absent or erect, usually stout. Involucres
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  • expanded at apex. Capsules: dehiscence loculicidal. Seeds 4–25, pale-brown to dark-brown, ovoid to reniform, wings absent. x = 6, 7. w United States, nw Mexico
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  • oval to oblong; styles erect to spreading. Achenes included, light-brown to dark-brown or black, not winged, lenticular, globose-lenticular, or 3-gonous
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  • Inflorescences loosely racemose, bracteate; bracts leaflike. Flowers 1–many, usually nodding, 3-merous; perianth hypogynous, campanulate or cupulate; tepals
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  • yellowish green to dark green, dull or shiny. Stems (0.5–) 2–12 (–18) cm, erect, simple or forked, densely tomentose with white or reddish-brown, smooth to papillose
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  • linear), usually bearing conspicuous spines and always bearing glochids. Spines slender to stout (to hairlike), terete to strongly flattened, usually smooth
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  • ascending to recurved teeth; carpophore absent. Seeds [1–] 5–35, brown to dark-brown or black, reniform or suborbicular, laterally compressed or not, shiny
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  • petals 3, maroon or green, usually shorter than sepals; stamens (3–) 5–15 (–25); carpels 3; style 0–0.5 mm; stigmas 3, dark red, fimbriate-plumose, sometimes
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  • base) or white and sometimes darkly streaked (by resin canals) variously black, brown, maroon, red, or brownish violet, usually rotate (to funnelform or campanulate)
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  • appears in FNA Volume 2. Plants usually on rock. Stems compact, erect to ascending, usually unbranched; scales tan to brown, rarely black, concolored, subulate
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  • Seta single or multiple, yellow, yellow-green, brown, sometimes reddish or greenish, rarely orange, dark red, or blackish with age, 1.2–5 cm, straight to
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  • individually; petals yellow, usually fading dark yellow, orange, pale-pink, or pale-purple, suborbiculate to rhombic or obcordate; stigma usually yellow to yellow-green
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  • mats. Stems red, reddish-brown, or brown, rarely yellowish-brown, erect, simple or branched distally, not dendroid; rhizoids brown, macronemata mainly proximal
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  • membranous. Leaves generally withering from tip by anthesis, usually persistent, 1–12, basal; blade usually linear, terete, channeled, or flat (carinate in A. sativum
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  • included in subg. Dasanthera. Molecular data indicate that some sections as usually circumscribed are paraphyletic. Absent a robust phylogeny for Penstemon
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  • to recurved), triangular (pollen usually yellow, usually white in E. pallida). Cypselae (tan or bicolored with dark-brown band distally) 3-angled or 4-angled
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  • to slightly recurved, 2-years old gray to dark gray, rarely ± shiny dark-brown or black, older gray, usually slender, sometimes stout, 2–6 cm. Leaves:
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  • colonial, short to long-rhizomatous. Culms reddish purple, reddish-brown, or brown at base. Leaves: basal sheaths fibrous or not; sheath fronts membranous;
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  • glabrous or densely pubescent, 1-year old deep reddish-brown, brown, or purple-brown, older gray to dark gray, sometimes orangebrown overlaid with gray; bark
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  • at junction of ovary and free hypanthium usually white or yellow (yellow to orange in H. parvifolia), usually concealed by free hypanthium and sepals (exposed
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  • or decumbent; branches flexible at base, usually not glaucous (usually slightly or highly glossy). Buds usually arctica-type (alba-type in S. athabascensis)
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  • in tufts of a few; dark green to yellowish-brown stems. Stems simple or forked; central strand absent; rhizoids brown to red or dark purple, scanty to numerous
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  • ascending to recurved teeth; carpophore present or usually absent. Seeds 1–10, dark reddish or greenish brown, tan, blackish purple, black, or gray, ovoid to
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  • that disperse seeds ballistically are usually on erect peduncles; capsules that passively release their seeds usually point downward (A. J. Beattie and N
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  • distinct capitulum; green, pale green, yellowish, red, tan, brown to dark-brown. Stems green, brown or reddish, outer cortex of 3–4 layers of inflated, thin-walled
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  • perichaetial leaves usually with a longer and more or less sheathing base and shorter subulate than stem-leaves. Seta pale-yellow to dark reddish-brown, elongate
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  • yellowish-brown to orangish brown, with fine decurrent ridges, punctate (sometimes inconspicuously), glabrous or puberulent; bark becoming gray to dark gray
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  • Inflorescences usually umbels, 2–25 (–125) -flowered, sometimes solitary flowers; bracts usually ternate. Pedicels recurved, usually straight and longer
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  • purple-brown, sometimes tan or reddish-brown, 2-years old grayish; thorns on twigs usually numerous, straight to recurved, 2-years old usually black or blackish
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  • 2–3-cleft); scapes 1–several per rosette, glabrous; heads pale to dark, white, gray, or gray-brown, hemispheric to globose or short-cylindric; receptacle hairy
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  • flattened distally, papillose). Cypselae (dark-brown to black or yellowish-brown) prismatic, 5-ribbed, usually glanddotted, sometimes scabrellous on ribs;
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  • cespitose, short-rhizomatous or inconspicuously rhizomatous. Culms: bases brown, rarely red tinged. Leaves: basal sheaths fibrous; sheath fronts membranous
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  • Volume 2. Plants usually on rock. Stems compact to short-creeping, erect to ascending, sparingly branched; scales tan to chestnut-brown, concolored to weakly
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  • rhizomatous (stoloniferous in C. mackenziei). Culms brown at base. Leaves: basal sheaths fibrous, usually not persisting more than a year; sheath fronts membranous;
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  • absent; exostome teeth dark red to reddish-brown, lanceolate, densely and finely papillose, apically free; endostome yellowish to pale-brown, segments keeled
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  • blade apex 2-fid usually for 2/3–4/5 its length (S. holostea occasionally laciniate); nectaries at base of filaments opposite sepals usually present, disc
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  • perianth. Flowers solitary or in heads. Capsules 1-locular or usually 3-locular. Seeds usually not tailed. North America and south temperate areas of the
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  • connected by slender rhizomes. Stems 1–5, usually erect, sometimes decumbent (P. bootii), usually simple (leafy), usually glabrous proximally, tomentulose distally
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  • reddish-brown, becoming darker, sometimes black when old, usually erect, rarely sinuate at maturity or sterile stems sometimes arching, usually simple,
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  • 2, short, brown, apical cells 1–4, elongate, hyaline. Stem and branch leaves often differentiated, loosely appressed, usually ovate, usually concave; base
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  • Treatment appears in FNA Volume 23. Plants usually densely cespitose, short to long rhizomatous. Culms solitary or not, brown or purple at base. Leaves: basal sheaths
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  • basally, usually plane distally, sinuate to entire proximally, toothed to entire distally; apex acuminate or acute; costa double or obscure, usually to 1/4
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  • yellow, or tan to brown. Spines with whole epidermis sheath deciduous; major spines not or only basally angularly flattened. Glochids usually in tuft at adaxial
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  • in tufts or mats. Stems dark-brown or reddish-brown, erect, simple or branching distally, not dendroid; rhizoids dark-brown, macronemata often matted
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  • glabrous, 1-year old reddish-brown to blackish brown, often shiny, 2-years old deep gray, sometimes grayish red or gray-brown; thorns on twigs few to numerous
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  • 2-6-lobed; anthers usually somewhat apiculate, occasionally retuse. Pistillate flowers: calyx adnate to ovary, not forming flange; styles usually abruptly enlarged
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  • 381, 468, 482, 491, 548, 562, 56. Plants usually turf-forming or loosely cespitose, green distally and brown proximally. Stems 0.2–4 (–10) cm, irregularly
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  • 1/4–1/2 capsule length; carpophore absent. Seeds ca. 125, light tan to dark or reddish-brown, obliquely triangular with abaxial groove, or reniform to nearly
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  • scalelike. Peduncles usually absent, when present restricted to proximal nodes, erect, straight, slender. Involucres 1 per node, usually appressed to the inflorescence
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  • 25 Rachises dark reddish brown throughout. Asplenium trichomanes 25 Rachises dark in proximal 1/3–2/3 or only at base. > 26 26 Rachises dark in proximal
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  • appressed, body margins entire, distal parts expanded into erect to spreading, usually ± dentate or fringed, linear to ovate appendages, spine-tipped or spineless
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  • sometimes darker; styles yellow or greenish, sometimes grayish to blackish). Cypselae straw-colored to olive, brown, or red to pale or dark gray, bodies
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  • 2-years old dark-brown to black, ± stout, 3–7 (–9) cm. Leaves: petiole length (25–) 30–50% blade, pubescent to tomentose, sometimes glabrescent, usually eglandular;
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  • short-rhizomatous. Culms dark-brown to black at base, usually more than 1 mm wide. Leaves: basal sheaths fibrous or not; sheath fronts sometimes dotted brown, yellow,
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  • ovate to nearly oval, base decurrent onto stem, usually gradually tapering to petiole, margins usually entire, rarely slightly toothed, sometimes undulate
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  • ovoid, obovoid, or nearly globose. Seeds ellipsoid to globose, yellow to dark-brown, smooth to scabrous or furrowed. x = 7. Generally dry areas in temperate
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  • outer sometimes foliaceous, bases usually indurate, margins usually scarious, erose, hyaline or not, (apices usually with a well-defined green zone, sometimes
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  • appears in FNA Volume 23. Plants loosely cespitose or, usually, colonial, rhizomatous. Culms brown or purple at base. Leaves: basal sheaths sometimes fibrous;
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  • Sidastrum, and Sphaeralcea; blade usually symmetric, asymmetric in Malvella, sometimes asymmetric in Pavonia, usually unlobed, sometimes palmately lobed
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  • present; twigs: new growth usually glabrous (not recorded in C. nitida), 1-year old gray to reddish-brown or chestnut-brown; thorns on twigs absent or
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  • [–7], usually lobed. Fruits capsular, woody, dehiscence loculicidal and septicidal, [rarely irregular or fruits drupaceous]. Seeds 2–20, reddish-brown to
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  • spike staminate, androgynous, or gynecandrous. Proximal pistillate scales dark-brown to almost black, 1–3-veined, apex obtuse to acuminate. Perigynia ascending
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  • clear yellow-brown. > 7 2 Seeds 1.8–2.6 mm, including tails; stamens usually 6. > 3 2 Seeds 0.7–1.9 mm, including tails; stamens usually 3. > 4 3 Stems
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  • or not, yellowish or reddish to dark-brown or black, cylindric to ovoid or spindle-shaped; hypophysis same color or darker than urn, short-to-elongate, narrower
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  • of length; ovules 2 or 3 [or 4] (all but 1 usually aborting). Fruits pomes, usually orange or red, rarely brown or yellow [green, white, or pink], globose
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  • Leaves heterophyllous, juvenile usually opposite, horizontal, sessile, blade base ± cordate, surfaces glaucous, adult usually alternate, vertical, petiolate
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  • distinctly colored. Sexual condition autoicous. Seta elongate, smooth, brown to red or dark red. Capsule generally long-exserted or just emergent, erect to inclined
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  • eriantherus). Capsules glabrous, rarely glandular-pubescent distally. Seeds brown, dark-brown, or black, angled to reniform or slightly rounded, 1.5–4.8 mm. w North
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  • terrestrial. Stems often long-creeping, usually branched, 1–2.5 mm diam., not whitish pruinose; scales bicolored with dark central region, round to ovatelanceolate
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  • subjects of recent monographic studies. The dark spots on the achenes of some species apparently are the dark periclinal walls of the epidermis contrasting
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  • or cells enlarged, not or slightly inflated, hyaline, yellowbrown, brown, reddish-brown, or rarely bright red, walls thin or incrassate, region mostly well
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  • sometimes forming colonies. Stems 1–150, erect to ascending; bark usually gray, sometimes brown or salmon colored, smooth or fissuring in older trees; short-shoots
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  • Capsule erect and symmetric or slightly inclined, yellow to reddish-brown, darker red or brown at mouth, elliptic to cylindric, more or less wrinkled-plicate
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  • rarely glabrous; style glabrous. Capsules glabrous. Seeds tan to brown or dark-brown, angled to angled-elongate, 0.9–4 mm. w United States, n Mexico Species
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  • distinct or overlapping. Achenes in shallow pits or embedded, dark reddish brown to dark brown, 1.4–2 mm; bractlets and sepals clasping; torus yellowish red
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  • well developed; green, yellowish, light-brown, golden brown, reddish-brown to dark-brown. Stem green to dark-brown, superficial cortex of 0–3 layers of efibrillose
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  • sale via the Internet. They are usually grown as container plants and need sun for flowering. Oxalate deposits, usually as orange or blackish dots or stripes
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  • axillary hairs usually well developed. Stem-leaves straight, falcate, or squarrose, plicate or not; costa single, usually long, or double and usually short; alar
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  • tropical species], parallel distally. False indusia light gray-green or brown to dark-brown, narrow, 0.6–1 mm wide, marginal, concealing sporangia until sporangia
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  • trees, 2–200 dm. Stems 1+ (derived from root shoots), erect; bark dark-brown, reddish-brown, or gray, firm, platy or scaly; long and short-shoots present;
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  • Achenes includedor exserted, yellowish or dark-brown, unwinged, 3-gonous, glabrous. Seeds: embryo usually curved. x = 8, 10, 11. w North America, Europe
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  • abaxial sinus usually ± deeper than others). Cypselae (dark redbrown or stramineous) outer often arcuate, shorter, inner more columnar, usually some or all
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  • sometimes pubescent, 1-year old usually tan to deep mahogany; bark on younger 2–5 cm thick branches mainly dark gray-brown or orange, conspicuous horizontal
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  • orange, or tan [white, brown, purple] with light or dark green, white, yellow, brown, or orange [purple] longitudinal stripes, usually ellipsoid, globose,
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  • Cypselae stramineous or reddish to dark-brown, ± compressed, mostly oblong or oblanceoloid to ellipsoid, beaks 0, ribs usually 2–4 (–5+) on each face, faces
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  • perichaetial leaves same size as vegetative leaves or usually larger, sometimes forming rosette, inner leaves usually highly differentiated, often narrower, costa
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  • (9) -veined, unawned; calluses usually glabrous, sometimes pilose; lemmas hyaline or membranous, 3-veined, veins usually shortly hairy below, apices rounded
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  • 50–100% hairy, hairs to 0.7–1.3 mm; style glabrous. Capsules glabrous. Seeds dark-brown to black, angled to rounded, 1.1–2.1 mm. w United States, nw Mexico Species
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  • gregarious (tall turfs in R. andersonii), green to red-green. Stems 0.3–6 cm, usually strongly rosulate, sometimes in 2 or more interrupted rosettes, rarely evenly
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  • Ceanothus 4 Sepals spreading or erect, usually yellowish, yellowish green, green, or greenish white to white, sometimes brown, orange or purple; petals white
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  • clawed, claw usually conspicuous, sometimes small, rarely absent, auricles 2, coronal appendages 2, variously shaped or dissected; limb usually exserted and
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  • Cypselae (blackish or dark-brown) cylindric to narrowly clavate, ribbed or angled, puberulent to pilose; pappi persistent, usually of awns, bristles, or
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  • Inflorescences terminal usually on lateral branches, sometimes on primary-stems and shoots, (1–) 4–30 (–50) -flowered, usually panicles, sometimes corymbs
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  • with apex rough-awned, awn to 8.3 mm. Perigynia ascending, yellowbrown to dark-brown when mature, distinctly impressed veined, ovoid or obovoid to narrowly
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  • without (sometimes with) flower, usually clasping less than all of culm;. Achenes stramineous ripening to dark-brown, biconvex or to 1/3 of achenes greatly
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  • margins usually pinnately lobed to dissected, sometimes dentate or entire (sometimes revolute and/or prickly). Heads usually heterogamous (usually radiate)
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  • annuals and some perennials); usually sessile; blades linear to oblong, oblanceolate, or spatulate, usually runcinate, margins usually pinnately lobed (spinulose-tipped
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  • scapose; (usually glaucous), glabrous or pubescent, trichomes usually simple, rarely mixed with fewer, stalked, 2-rayed ones. Stems usually erect or ascending
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  • 2.5 mm, rarely glabrous; style glabrous. Capsules glabrous. Seeds brown or dark-brown, angled, angled-elongate, or disciform, 1.8–5.4 mm. North America
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  • Shrubs or trees, 3-50 m. Bark light to dark gray or gray-brown, smooth or split into ridges or plates. Twigs purplish brown, terete, stout, sparsely to densely
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  • 258. Plants 5–40 (–70) mm, in dense cushions to loose mats, olivaceous, dark black-green to rusty-redbrown. Leaves broadly oblong-ovate, oblong-lanceolate
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  • capsular, globose, 1–7 mm, dehiscence circumscissile. Seeds 5–45, dark-brown to reddish-brown, angled, papillate to alveolate. x = 10, 11. North America, Mexico
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  • scapes usually several per stem, filiform, glabrous or hairy, hairs neither swollen nor glandular apically; heads white, gray, gray-brown, or brown, ovoid
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  • or absent, light-brown to stramineous, stout, usually equal, equaling achene to slightly exceeding tubercle; stamens 3; anthers dark yellow to stramineous
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  • Capsule erect to inclined or horizontal, exserted, dark red to reddish or purplish brown, to pale-brown, pale-yellow or yellow-orange, oblong-ovoid to oblong-cylindric
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  • nomenclatural notes on Atriplex L. (Chenopodiaceae). Taxon 32: 549–556. Brown, G. D. 1956. Taxonomy of American Atriplex. Amer. Midl. Naturalist 55: 199–210
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  • or dark red, elliptic to ovate or round; styles (2–) 3, erect, distinct; stigmas (2–) 3, capitate. Achenes included or exserted, yellowbrown, brown, or
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  • cespitose, dark-brown to reddish-brown or brownish olive when dry, to 4.5 dm, not glaucous. Stems simple, 0.9–2.1 mm wide, glabrous, margins usually entire
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  • lobes 5, deltate to lanceovate (anthers usually dark purple, rarely yellow or light-brown). Ray cypselae usually obcompressed (± 3-angled, abaxial sides
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  • fusiform, or obovoid, 1.5–50 × 1.5–20 mm, usually juicy, sometimes slimy or fleshy (dry in C. minima), scales usually absent (or few), spines absent; pulp colorless
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  • cross-section when young, glabrous. Inflorescences usually paniculate, usually condensed, with 8–20+ spikes, usually more than 15 spikes; proximal bracts filiform
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  • proximally dark red, distally red to brown or green, thinly papery, apex usually redbrown, often callose, subtruncate to obtuse, tooth usually present on
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  • shrubs, to 35 m; trunks usually several, branching excurrent to deliquescent. Bark of trunks and branches light gray to dark-brown, thin, smooth, close;
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  • sterile leaves 3–20 cm, shorter than fertile leaves. Petiole dark-brown proximally, light-brown to green distally, with single longitudinal groove adaxially
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  • hairy, hairs to 1.5 mm; style glabrous. Capsules glabrous. Seeds brown to dark-brown, angled, 1.4–4.2 mm. w United States, Mexico Species 8 (4 in the flora)
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  • 5 mm, usually green, rarely purplish; sepals 5, green, sometimes reddish at tips; petals 5 (absent or 1–5 in M. apetala, M. subapetala), usually white
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  • 15–30 (–40) m. Bark dark reddish-brown, deeply furrowed and irregularly blocky, not flaking. Leaves deciduous; petiole 0.7–1 cm; blade dark green and glossy
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  • (present in O. diaphanum); costa usually ending near apex; basal laminal cells elongate-linear or rectangular; distal cells usually rounded, almost isodiametric
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  • bracts absent or present when distal leaves much reduced. Pedicels present, usually distinctly longer in fruit than calyces; bracteoles absent. Flowers erect
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  • Stems: twigs: new growth usually appressed-pubescent, 1-year old usually dull yellowish to greenish brown or gray-brown to light or dark tan; thorns on twigs
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  • per locule, grayish to yellowish-brown, brown, or dark purplish brown, obovoid or subcuboid, angled or rounded, usually with an erose wing distally, surface
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  • ovoid to ellipsoid or oblong, 3–15 mm, walls unpigmented or brown-streaked to completely brown, traversed internally by trabeculae (internal partitions)
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  • than sepals, apex usually emarginate, sometimes truncate; filaments 3–6 mm; anthers 1–2 mm; style 2–6 mm. Nutlets gray or dark-brown, 3–4 mm, tuberculate
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  • perianth bristles 2–4 (–5), brown, slender to stout, usually very unequal, rudimentary to equaling achene; stamens 3; anthers brown, 1.5–2 mm; styles 2-fid
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  • appears in FNA Volume 10. Herbs usually facultatively biennial or short-lived perennial, rarely annual; from taproot. Stems usually erect or ascending, rarely
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  • loosely cespitose; rhizomes ascending or horizontally spreading, reddish-brown to dark reddish purple, 0–70 mm, slender. Culms 10–45 cm, smooth to scabrous
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  • radiatus). Flowers usually lasting for a day; calyx persistent, sometimes accrescent, inflated or not, not spathaceous, primary-veins usually ± straight, rarely
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  • in 3–5 series, 1-nerved (usually raised; keeled proximally), lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, usually strongly unequal (usually stiff), margins scarious
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  • (cuplike after dehiscence), 2-beaked (beaks divergent). Seeds dark-brown or reddish-brown, ellipsoid, ovoid, or spheroid, smooth. x = 11. North America
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  • filiform to subcapitate. Capsules: dehiscence loculicidal. Seeds 10–100, dark-brown, ovoid to ellipsoid, wings absent. x = 11. w North America, in Asia (China)
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  • petals 5, corolla pale-pink to rose-purple or purple, rarely white, throats usually with 2 abaxial yellow lines and red spots within, bilabiate, funnelform
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  • color variable but usually pale green or nearly translucent; anthers versatile, color variable, usually purplish, becoming darker, oblong, 0.3–2.6 cm;
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  • filaments 2–7 mm; anthers (yellow) 0.4–1.5 mm; style 1.5–4 mm. Nutlets dark-brown or gray, 3–4.5 mm, tuberculate, tubercles straw-colored, platelike, conic
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  • pistillate scales pale-brown to reddish-brown, 1.4–3.2 × 0.8–1.7 mm, margins pale, narrow, hyaline; staminate scales reddish-brown, lanceolate to ovate,
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  • slightly expanded at apex. Capsules: dehiscence loculicidal. Seeds 8–40, brown to dark-brown, ovoid to ± reniform, wings absent. x = 7. w United States, nw Mexico
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  • densely cespitose, very short to long rhizomatous, stoloniferous. Culms red or brown at base, shorter than leaves. Leaves: basal sheaths fibrous; sheath fronts
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  • not rooting at nodes; branchlets reddish-brown or brown, usually not, sometimes weakly, thorn-tipped, usually round, sometimes ± angled in cross-section
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  • rarely 6 antrorsely barbed bristles, greatly elongate, essentially straight, usually obscuring most of scales in spikelet, much longer than achene; stamens 1–3;
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  • schizocarps, each separating into mericarps. Mericarps 4, white, maroon, brown, grayish brown, or black, reniform, wings present, partial, or absent. x = 3, 5
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  • Luther, Gregory K. Brown Etymology: After the Swedish botanist E. Tillands, 1640–1693 Treatment appears in FNA Volume 22. Herbs, usually epiphytic, stemless
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  • lance-linear, proximal usually 1–2-pinnatifid, ultimate margins toothed or entire (sometimes bristly-ciliate), (apices of distal leaves usually spine-tipped) faces
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  • stigmas capitate, fimbriate, or peltate. Achenes included or exserted, brown to dark-brown or black, not winged, 3-gonous, glabrous. Seeds: embryo straight.
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  • vegetative and flowering. Culms usually maroon, or less often brown, tan, or pale green at base. Leaves: basal sheaths usually bladeless, sometimes fibrous;
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  • spreading in fruit, 30–80, 3–5 per mm of rachilla, medium brown, sometimes redbrown or dark chestnut-brown, midrib regions often stramineous to green, ovate to
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  • pink, or shades of purple, 1–1.6 cm. Fruits gray, dark-brown, or nearly black, often mottled with dark-brown or black, with or without 10 pale, diffuse lines
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  • or orange to redbrown. Capsule yellowish, orangebrown, reddish, light-brown, or dark red when mature, oblong to ovoid, smooth to striate, often wrinkled
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  • turfs, or mats, green, dark green, brownish green, light green or yellow-green, usually darker proximally, often tinged reddish-brown or purple. Stems (0
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  • 2-fid. Achenes persistent after scales fall, usually lemon yellow or dark yellow, orange, or medium brown, rarely greenish, obpyriform, nearly equilaterally
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  • sometimes appearing almost circumscissile). Seeds (4–40), reddish purple, dark reddish-brown, or blackish, shiny, ellipsoid to ovoid, nearly smooth or pitted.
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  • involute to flat, usually glabrous, sometimes scabridulous abaxially, gray-green, lax to curled at maturity. Inflorescences usually sparingly branched
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  • foliaceous. Flowers resupinate, showy; sepals distinct or lateral sepals usually connate proximal to lip forming synsepal; petals entire; lip inflated, slipper
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  • Mentioned on page 574, 575. Stems ascending to erect or, rarely, prostrate, usually branched, sometimes simple, unarmed. Leaves: ocrea chartaceous, rarely foliaceous
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  • Florets 20–50; corollas golden yellow, 9–18 mm. Cypselae dark to golden reddish or yellowish-brown, fusiform, 3.5–8 mm, tapered distally or beaked, ribs 10–13
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  • stalked mucilage hairs in leaf-axils, stalks usually brown. Leaves spiraling around stem in several rows, usually brittle, commonly ending in a distinct apiculus
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  • less than 50 cm [rarely longer], usually scaleless throughout. Petioles often dark-colored and wiry, commonly terete, usually less than 2 mm diam., articulate
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  • to ascending). Stems usually yellowish green (usually not branched). Basal leaves: petioles 0–15 cm; blades (3-) or 5-nerved, usually linear or lanceolate
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  • filaments 0.5–0.8 mm, anthers 0.5–0.8 mm; style 0.2 mm. Capsules chestnut-brown or dark-brown, infrequently lighter, 3-locular, ellipsoid, (2.5–) 2.9–3.5 (–4) ×
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  • forming colonies. Stems subterranean, long to short-creeping; hairs dark reddish-brown, jointed. Leaves clustered or scattered, erect to arching, ovate to
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  • adaxial. Fruits follicles, dehiscence adaxial. Seeds mostly 2–5 per carpel, dark-brown to blackish, ± cylindric to arcuate [globose], outer integuments relatively
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  • bilobed, or bifid, often mucronate; lowest lemmas cartilaginous, light to dark-brown, scabridulous distally, 3-veined, unawned, mucronate, or with a single
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  • narrow glutinous ridge, apices usually stiffly ascending to spreading, linear-acicular, tapering to spines 7–35 mm; outer usually pinnately spiny, sometimes
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  • leaf base usually have red to red-brown walls but clear sap. The leaves are erect-spreading when moist; the setae are red or red-brown (brown in P. salinum)
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  • 562. Plants in turf or mats, green to yellowbrown distally, light to dark-brown proximally. Stems to 1 (–3) cm, branching occasionally; oval to rounded-triangular
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  • 2–3 cm; sepals 10–20 × 3–4 mm, proximal ones usually reflexed, usually puberulent, distalmost pair usually largest, ± erect, enclosing banner petal, or
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  • 578. Plants growing in turf or cushions, light to dark or olive green distally, light to dark-brown basally. Stems to 2.7 cm, branching often; pentagonal
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  • lengths; placentation axile; styles 2; stigmas 2. Capsules 2-beaked. Seeds dark-brown, prismatic (or angular) and fusiform, minutely tuberculate. x = 7. w United
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  • stipitate-glandular basally; ovary similar in color to foliage. Capsules beige to dark-brown, ± globose, 6.2–8.1 mm; pedicel erect to ascending. Seeds globose to obconic
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  • be mature, are usually much paler than ripe achenes; lengths of achenes include beak; lengths of scales include awn; spikelets usually elongate during
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  • Association Shrubs or trees to 30 m. Bark brown, furrowed. Leaves in whorls of 3 (sometimes 4 or 5 when juvenile), usually glaucous, juvenile leaves 7–8 mm, mature
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  • 6 (–1.8) mm, usually without flat margins around achene, usually glabrous, margins often ciliate-setose distally; beak 0.5–1.5 mm, tip dark purple, often
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  • basally; petals (3–) 5 (–6) or 0, distinct, white; nectary extrastaminal, usually 5 glands; stamens 3–35 [–50], inflexed in bud, distinct; pistillode absent
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  • 53, 68, 486, 488. Perennials [annuals, subshrubs], 5–150 cm (usually rhizomatous; usually aromatic). Stems 1 or 2–5+, erect or prostrate to ascending,
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  • ovoid to ± spherical, 4–7 mm, puberulent. Seeds light to dark-brown or mottled gray and brown, 2–3.1 mm. 2n = 12. Generated Map Legacy Map B.C., Ariz.
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  • (sometimes minute, hidden by surrounding disc). Seeds 3–ca. 30, brownish or dark-brown to black, reniform, papillose, rugose, or smooth; not arillate; endosperm
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  • mirus) (± deliquescent). Cypselae dark to pale-brown, stramineous, whitish, bodies ± fusiform to cylindric, usually beaked, beaks concolorous with, or
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  • obliquely funnel-shaped to cylindric; stamens usually unilateral; anthers usually parallel; style usually arching over stamens, dividing into 3 filiform
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  • splitting, mostly proximally dark red, distally red to brown or green, thinly papery to thickly membranous, apex usually redbrown, subtruncate to obtuse
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  • staminate spikes 3.1–15.5 × 1–2.5 mm. Scales: pistillate scales pale-brown to dark reddish-brown, often with broad white margins, ovate to lanceolate, 2.5–4.8
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  • nonflowering plants), basal, ± petiolate; blade green or mottled with purple, brown, or white, lanceolate to ovate (wider if solitary), flat to folded, 6–60
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  • ellipsoid, 2.5–10 mm, sometimes muriculate, glabrous or puberulent. Seeds brown to dark-brown or purplish black, 1.5–2.5 mm. Generated Map Legacy Map Alta., B.C
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  • FNA Volume 23. Plants densely cespitose, short-rhizomatous. Culms brown to dark-brown at base, not more than 1 mm wide distally. Leaves: basal sheaths not
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  • uniformly brown or bicolored with dark central stripe and pale-brown margins, ovate to narrowly lanceolate. Leaves 9–35 × 1–8 cm. Petiole usually reddish-brown
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  • short-rhizomatous. Culms brown at base. Leaves: basal sheaths not fibrous; sheath fronts membranous; blades sparsely septate-nodulose, usually V-shaped in cross-section
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  • mm, wall thin or slightly fleshy, irregularly rugose. Seeds dark reddish-brown to dark-brown, 0.7–1 mm diam., shiny. Phenology: Flowering late spring–fall
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  • Inflorescences dense, dark-brown, 1.5–3 cm × 14–20 mm; proximal internode 1.5–3 mm; 2d internode 1–3.5 mm; proximal bracts scalelike, usually bristlelike, shorter
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  • Fruit aggregates collectively 2.5-4 cm diam., usually with 10-15 pistils at maturity. Seeds pale-brown. 2n = 26. Phenology: Flowering midspring–early
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  • cream to dark red anthers, filaments of distal set shorter with yellow or yellow-cream anthers; anthers 2-pored; ovary usually pubescent; style usually surpassing
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  • pink, purple, violet, or blue (sometimes dark abaxially), laminae 4-veined, 3-toothed. Disc-florets usually bisexual and fertile, sometimes functionally
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  • capsular, 3-locular, thin-walled, subglobose or ± oblate. Seeds numerous, dark-brown to black, flat, D-shaped, obliquely winged, lustrous. x = 6. se to sc
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  • erect, sometimes rooting at proximal nodes; branchlets green to brown or reddish-brown, flexible to rigid, strigillose or tomentulose. Leaves not fascicled
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  • 637. Shrubs or trees, 30–70 dm. Stems: 2-year old twigs shiny, dark or reddish-brown; thorns on twigs stout to ± slender. Leaves: petiole eglandular or
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  • fertile culm, 7–22 cm × 2–4 mm. Inflorescences erect, usually dense, green, gold, or dark-brown, 1.8–3 cm8–14 mm; proximal internode 2–3 (–5) mm; 2d internode
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  • cm wide, margins typically armed with minute teeth, apical spine dark brown or brown to grayish, 2.5–4.5 cm; flowers 5.5–8 cm; wc Florida, s Texas. > 16
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  • cuneate, margins usually entire, usually plane, slightly undulate, or crispate, rarely undulate-erose, apex acute, obtuse, or emarginate, usually mucronulate
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  • trunks usually bearing compound thorns; twigs: new growth reddish green, glabrous, 1-year old dark, shiny redbrown, 2–3-years old becoming dark gray, older
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  • Stems usually 1, erect or ascending, branched distally or ± throughout. Leaves mostly cauline; opposite; petiolate or sessile; blades usually 1–3-pinnately
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  • Plants on rock, occasionally terrestrial or epiphytic. Stems creeping, usually branched, 3–15 mm diam., sometimes whitish pruinose; scales concolored to
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  • straw-colored distally, 7–60 cm, base dark redbrown or black, swollen, with 2 rows of teeth; scales light to dark-brown, linear to ovatelanceolate, 7–20 ×
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  • Capsule pendent, yellowish-brown, ovate, 2–2.5 mm; operculum conic-apiculate; exostome dark-brown; endostome yellowish-brown. Spores 31–40 µm. North America
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  • (–10) cm, in tufts or mats. Stems reddish-brown to black, erect, branched distally, dendroid; rhizoids brown, macronemata matted proximally, occasionally
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  • [mat-forming], usually not glaucous, usually glabrous, sometimes pubescent or glabrate. Leaves basal and/or cauline, sometimes rosulate; usually alternate,
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  • blades ovate to ovate-lanceolate; scales at base of petioles dark brown or with dark brown stripe. > 12 11 Basal pinnae deltate; blades lanceolate with
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  • entire. Leaves monomorphic, crowded, narrowed toward tip, to 90 cm. Petiole dark-brown to black, round in cross-section except for narrow lateral ridge decurrent
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  • translucent to brown, lax, singular [in bundles] without branches, emerging at stem branch points; root hairs to 1 cm, emerging from root cap. Stems usually not green
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  • glabrous or ± tomentose or villous, often unevenly glabrescent). Stems usually 1, usually erect. Leaves basal and cauline; alternate; petiolate or sessile;
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  • perianth, light to dark-brown, ovate, (2–) 3-gonous, 1.2–4.2 mm, faces subequal or unequal, apex not beaked, edges slightly concave, dull, usually coarsely striate-tubercled
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  • floral scales appressed in fruit, 20–60, 5–6 per mm of rachilla, medium to dark-brown, midrib region often paler, ovate, 1.5–2.5 × 1 mm, apex rounded (to acute)
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  • large as primary teeth, apex usually abruptly nearly caudate, but sometimes long, gradually tapered; surfaces abaxially usually moderately pubescent, especially
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  • commonly branching to form clumps, fleshy, with brown scalelike [or green] leaves; flowering-stems from axils of brown scale-leaves on stout rootstock partly above
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  • tepals chestnut-brown or paler, lanceolate, (2.5–) 3.3–5.5 (–6) mm, margins clear; inner series loosely subtending capsule at maturity; usually slightly shorter
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  • light-brown to gray-green (woody, somewhat pliable, leafy), persistently canescent to glabrescent. Leaves deciduous, whitish gray or green to dark gray-green;
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  • mucronate, or short-awned. When present the perianth is usually persistent, rarely caducous, white or brown; bristles are vestigial or to 8 mm, shorter to much
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  • proximally; stigmas 2–3, capitate. Achenes included or exserted, brown to dark-brown, unwinged, 3-gonous, glabrous. Seeds: embryo curved. x = 11, 12. Arctic
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  • in simple, linear or oblong fleshy sporophore tip, tip usually ± apiculate. Gametophytes brown to white, narrowly linear, unbranched, 2-20 × 1-3mm diam
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  • and perichaetia at the base; the setae are twisted; the capsules are dark brown to dark red and sometimes wrinkled; and the exostome teeth are bordered and
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  • faces usually scabrellous to villous (hairs simple or jointed), rarely glabrous, usually notably glanddotted (except in 10. G. suavis). Heads usually radiate
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  • 361, 365, 367, 371. Herbs, perennial, cespitose, pale to olive green or dark-brown to bronze when dry, to 5 dm, not glaucous; rhizomes scarcely discernable
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  • green or bluish green, (dark-brown to black after drying in subsp. prolificum), heterophyllous or homophyllous. Stems erect, usually profusely branched in
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  • sometimes variable in size and color, lenticular; seed-coat black or brown, shiny, usually finely reticulate (seen at 40× magnification), sometimes smooth.
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  • urceolate to campanulate or salverform, petals usually convolute and imbricate; staminate flowers usually smaller than pistillate flowers; stamens [6–]
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  • reddish-brown or dark-brown and glabrous or slightly puberulous; flowering shoots becoming spurs or spiny thorns, 10–60 mm. Buds reddish-brown, ovoid,
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  • globose, 1–1.7 × 0.8–1.7 cm; outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, reddish-brown, membranous, lacking cellular reticulation or cells arranged in only 2–3
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  • 3-locular; ovules 2 per carpel; disc glabrous; style 5–6 mm. Drupes dark orange to brown, cylindric-ellipsoid, 10–14 mm, glabrous. Seeds ovoid. 2n = 28. Phenology:
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  • aging blackish. Spines (0–) 1–6 (–12) per areole, white to yellow, usually red to dark-brown at extreme bases, aging gray to ± black, subulate, straight to
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  • scapose, not rhizomatous. Roots diffuse, very fine. Culms stiff or flaccid, usually terete, ribbed. Leaves basal, polystichous, spreading to ascending; sheaths
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  • Stems green, bluish green, or purplish (usually glaucous). Leaves often bluish green, glaucous; basal (usually persistent to flowering) petiolate or sessile;
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  • scarious, falling from top of capsule; petals ephemeral, 5–7, usually distinct, margins usually entire; stamens (4–) 6–40 (–100); ovary half-inferior to inferior
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  • overlapping. Achenes in shallow pits or partially embedded, reddish-brown to dark-brown, 1.4–2 mm; bractlets and sepals clasping; torus not easily separated
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  • Trees and shrubs; trunks 1–many. Bark when young dark reddish-brown, in maturity light reddish-brown to tan or brownish or grayish white, smooth, rather
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  • leaves are erect or erect-spreading, usually more crowded toward stem apices, more or less contorted when dry, and usually spreading when moist. The perigonia
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  • Inflorescences usually axillary, less commonly axillary and terminal; cymes 1–7 (–10) -flowered. Pedicels erect to spreading, 0.5–7 mm. Flowers usually closed
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  • Seeds usually dimorphic, rarely monomorphic, those with relatively smooth surfaces light-brown, 1.4–2.1 × 0.5–0.7 mm, those of lower portion dark-brown
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  • horizontal, rhizoids usually restricted to stolons. Stolon leaves scalelike, 0.2–1.3 mm; apex short-acute or long-acuminate; usually ecostate. Stipe leaves
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  • staminate base. Pistillate scales dark-brown, usually with pale or green midstripe, ovate, 1.5–2.5 (–3.5) mm, usually shorter, narrower than perigynia,
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  • absent or sometimes present. Seeds 1–25, reddish-brown to brown or black (or rarely yellowish or purplish brown), spherical or suborbiculate to reniform or
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  • stamens 3–8. Achenes enclosed in perianth, light yellow, light-brown, or greenish brown to dark-brown, ovate to lanceolate, 1.3–2.5 mm, faces subequal, shiny
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  • constricted between seeds (usually breaking), strongly ribbed, beak narrowly conical; style 10–50 mm. Seeds (reddish-brown or dark-brown to black), oblong or
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  • intergradation of morphology. The red-brown exostome in Climacium is incurved when dry in contrast to the erect, yellow-brown segments of the endostome. None
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  • or indistinct, usually ovoid, (4.5–) 6–10 × (2–) 4–6 mm, base usually acute, apex rounded to acute. Pistillate scales gold to dark-brown, with whitish to
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  • cells on abaxial surface inconspicuous or conspicuous, pale yellowish-brown or dark-brown. Racemes nodding, elongating in fruit. Flowers opening at sunrise;
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  • maroon to dark purple, transversely rugose; stigma enlarged, diam. usually 2+ times style. Capsules light-brown, often reddish-brown apically, valvate, ovoid
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  • 2–4 mm diam. Seeds numerous, in 2 rows per locule, brown to dark-brown, often flecked with darker spots, ellipsoid to broadly ellipsoid, surface reticulate
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  • page 316. Mentioned on page 57, 317, 318. Herbs perennial, scapose, from brown, tunicate, ovoid bulbs, with or without offsets (bulblets). Leaves (1–) 2–7
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  • 3; anthers dark yellow to stramineous, 1.5–2.2 mm; styles 2-fid, very rarely some 3-fid. Achenes not persistent, stramineous or dark-brown, biconvex, angles
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  • page 453. Plants 5–70 cm. Stems erect, green, tan, or reddish to dark-brown, usually glabrous or villous, rarely tomentose. Leaves: basal withering by
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  • length of styles. Capsules pale to dark-brown, obovoid to subglobose, usually shorter than tepals. Seeds dark-brown, globose, 1.2–1.6 mm; caruncle 0.5–0
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  • glabrous. Seeds dark-brown, 6 mm. 2n = 46. Phenology: Flowering spring–summer. Habitat: Thickets, woodland margins, roadsides, usually rich soils. Elevation:
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  • stamens 5. Utricles light-brown, elliptic, 3 mm, equaling tepals, walls somewhat fleshy, smooth, indehiscent. Seeds dark-brown, 1.2–1.7 mm diam., shiny
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  • florets 2–5; corolla lobes mostly 4, equal or unequal. Cypselae light to dark-brown, monomorphic: terete to obcompressed, ± obovoid, ± straight, not gibbous
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  • substratum, dark to dull green; protonema producing funnel-like flaps (rarely discernible in most specimens). Stems short, erect, usually simple, 0.5–2
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  • golden to blackish green distally, brown to blackish brown proximally, sometimes brown, blackish brown to jet throughout. Stems 1–7 (–10) cm tall. Leaves
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  • trees, annual or perennial, terrestrial (P. fluitans floating aquatic), usually monoecious, sometimes dioecious, glabrous or hairy, hairs simple [branched];
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  • lemmas, if present, hyaline, unawned; anthers 1-2, yellow to brown; stigmas elongate, purple to brown; styles connate or free. Pedicels not fused to the branch
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  • Culms 8-180 (220) cm, usually erect to ascending, sometimes strongly decumbent to prostrate, usually glabrous. Leaves usually evenly distributed, sometimes
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  • involucre; perianth white to purple-pink, 0.7–1.1 cm. Fruits olive brown or dark olive brown, narrowly obovate and tapering at both ends to obovoid, 3.1–5.5
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  • branches, cleistogamous flowers are usually borne close to the main stem. Fruits from cleistogamous flowers are usually smaller and have fewer seeds than
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  • Capsules (tardily dehiscent), usually inflated, (valves sometimes 3), 20–30 × 6–12 mm, smooth. Seeds 5–25, dark-brown, obovoid, 6–7 × 5–6 mm, smooth.
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  • lanceolate-oblong, or ovate, 2–3 mm; anthers 0.5 mm. Pseudodrupes dark to light-brown, sometimes red-tinged, not glaucous, subglobose to globose, 4–6 mm
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  • (bark becoming dark-brown to gray, flaky to fibrous when older; twigs, mostly ascending, whitish tan to purplish, mostly 1–4 cm), usually hairy, often stipitate-glandular
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  • with farina-producing glands. Spores tan with dark-brown ridges, tetrahedral-globose, perispore usually reticulate, with equatorial flange (except in Pityrogramma
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  • Capsules glabrous or sparsely glandular-pubescent distally. Seeds brown to dark-brown or black, angled, rarely ± rounded, 1–4 mm. w United States, n Mexico
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  • Mentioned on page 52, 55. Shrubs, 0.5–5 m. Stems red to gray or brown, glabrous or hairy. Leaves usually persistent, rarely deciduous; petiole 3–10 mm; blade bright
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  • [filamentous]; ± radiculose; axillary hairs of 2–several cells, basal-cell small, brown, distal cell elongate, hyaline. Secondary stems spreading, suberect, frondose
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  • Copyright: Flora of North America Association Stem scales brown. Leaves 5–25 cm. Petiole dark-brown, 0.75–1.5 mm diam. Blade deltate, 4–6-pinnate proximally
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  • centrally dark greenish or brownish, oblong to narrowly triangular or broadly triangular, unequal, scarious margins pale to dark-brown or blackish brown, 0.2–1
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  • trunk bark dark gray, scaling; freshly exposed bark gray; twigs: new growth glabrous or rufous-tomentose, 1-year old dark chestnut-brown to dark gray, older
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  • well developed or occasionally reduced, guide cells usually present; proximal laminal cells usually rectangular, walls thin; distal medial cells elongate-hexagonal
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  • annual, prostrate to erect, green to dark red, 0.5–8 (–10) dm, glaucous. Stems decumbent to erect, green to dark red, usually striped, simple or branched; branches
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  • slightly, dark reddish-brown, maroon, purple, or white, sometimes pale-yellow, major adaxial veins prominent and appearing somewhat engraved, usually flat,
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  • glabrous [hairy]; anthers rotund-ovate to spheric. Drupes usually blue, sometimes orange to brown [white], crowned by persistent calyx; endocarp 1 [–5] -celled
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  • with brownish purple stripes and white hairs (becoming brown with age); distal portion of sepal usually spreading at anthesis, sometimes reflexed or nearly
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  • 5–10 mm, glabrous; sepals 6–10 mm, apex long-acuminate; petals usually reddish purple to dark purple, narrowly lanceolate, unlobed, 7–12 (–14) mm, apex long-tapered;
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  • appears in FNA Volume 27. Treatment on page 311. Plants medium to large, usually dark green or black with distal portions green. Stems elongate, rarely short
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  • densely cespitose, short-rhizomatous; rhizomes dark-brown, stout, sometimes inconspicuous. Culms brown at base. Leaves: basal sheaths not fibrous; sheath
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  • Volume 3. Trees or shrubs, spindly, to 15 m; crowns variable. Bark dark-brown or gray brown, smooth, shallowly furrowed, sometimes sometimes appearing warty
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  • scales spreading in fruit, 20–60, 6 per mm of rachilla, medium brown to very dark-brown, sometimes stramineous or colorless, midrib region often paler
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  • spreading valves; carpophore absent. Seeds 3–15, reddish-brown to dark reddish or yellowish-brown, narrowly to broadly obovate, laterally compressed, smooth
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  • adnate to valves proximally; columella persistent. Seeds 10–20 [–40], dark-brown, ovoid, asymmetric, rough, apical wing prominent. x = 15 or 18. North
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  • distinct, broadly ovate, unequal to subequal, margins and apices (pale to dark-brown or black) narrowly to widely scarious (abaxial faces glabrous). Receptacles
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  • 532, 533, 534, 536, 548. Plants usually loosely cespitose; rhizomes spreading to erect, purplish brown to reddish-brown, 0–10 mm, slender. Culms arching
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  • the branch axes, elliptic to obovate to ovate to orbicular, stramineous or brown. Lower glumes absent; upper glumes and lower lemmas glabrous or shortly glandular-pubescent
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  • bracts 5, usually more than 50% connate, apex acute to obtuse or ovate. Flowers 6 per involucre; perianth magenta, funnelform, 2.5–6 cm. Fruits brown to black
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  • stigmas much exceeding styles. Capsules dark-brown, ovoid, ± equaling to shorter than tepals. Seeds dark-brown, (with tuft of fine tangled hairs), ellipsoid
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  • 2–5-flowered [–many-flowered]; bracts pale to light-brown, irregularly streaked with dark-brown, unequal, outer usually exceeding inner, scarious, acute or 3-cuspidate
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  • Plants loosely cespitose; rhizomes arching to ascending, dark reddish-brown to purplish brown, 0–12 mm, slender or stout. Culms 7–47 cm, scabrous distally;
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  • dorsiventrally flattened, linear or elliptic, not petaloid, inner filiform, usually unlobed, rarely distally 2-lobed; ovules (and seeds) oriented parallel to
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  • (often stout, light to dark-brown), sparsely to densely scabroso-hirsute to cinereo-puberulent, or villous distally. Leaves (light to dark green) thick and often
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  • 147, 179, 651, 659. Plants small, in open to dense turfs or dense cushions, dark green to golden. Stems 0.5–2 cm, rosulate or sometimes gemmiform, sparsely
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  • 0.4 mm thick, 4–5-ribbed, glabrous; mature heads dark-brown or reddish-brown, nearly globose, usually short cylindric by seeding time, 3–4 mm; receptacle
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  • Cryophytum N. E. Brown Gasoul Adanson Treatment appears in FNA Volume 4. Treatment on page 84. Mentioned on page 76, 77. Herbs, annual or perennial, usually short-lived
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  • thorns on twigs few to numerous, straight to recurved, 2-years old dark blackish brown, shiny, ± stout, sometimes slender, 2–6 cm. Leaves: petiole length
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  • dm. Stems 1–20, branched distally; bark silvery to dark gray or brownish black, often maroon-brown when young, smooth, roughened in older stems; long-shoots
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  • 646, 647. Plants medium-sized, in thin to dense mats, light to yellowish or dark green, somewhat glossy to glossy. Stems creeping to ascending or erect, simple
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  • scales very dark-brown throughout, narrowly deltate, 1–3 × 0.1–0.25 mm, margins with widely spaced teeth. Leaves monomorphic. Petiole reddish-brown proximally
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  • to 50m; trunk to 2m diam., usually (when forest grown) branch-free over most of height; crown short, conic. Bark reddish-brown, scaly, with deep furrows
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  • maturity walls thin, almost smooth or indistinctly rugose. Seeds dark reddish-brown to brown, 1–1.2 mm diam., shiny. Phenology: Flowering summer–fall, occasionally
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  • cormoid, branched, woody caudices. Stems 1–5+, ascending to erect (grayish brown to brown), moderately to densely hairy. Leaves (light grayish green) firm, margins
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  • irregularly dehiscent, or dehiscence regularly circumscissile. Seeds dark reddish-brown to dark-brown, 0.7–1 mm diam., shiny. Phenology: Flowering summer–fall. Habitat:
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  • rounded, surfaces with silvery scales and stellate hairs (scales sometimes brown abaxially in E. commutata and E. multiflora, sometimes glabrous adaxially
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  • America Association Plants 1–2 (–4) cm. Stems reddish-brown or dark red. Leaves pale to dark green, usually contorted and spirally twisted when dry, obovate
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  • branched; scales dark reddish-brown, narrowly deltate, 3–5 × 0.3–0.5 mm, margins entire. Leaves monomorphic. Petiole dark reddish-brown at base, fading
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  • Fruits capsules, dehiscence septicidal. Seeds ca. 50, tan to light-brown, darker towards center, globular to ovoid, wings present. x = 14. c, e North
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  • unbranched, usually ovoid, rarely spheric. Leaves 1 (–3). Inflorescences diffuse, 1–5 (–10) -flowered; bracts scalelike; peduncle brown, drying light-brown or gray
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  • Spines 6–32 per areole, yellow, brown, or reddish to salmon with color hidden by very thin, light gray layer, usually large and coarse, annulate-ridged
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  • staminate 4–6.5 mm; pistillate 5.5–8 mm. Phyllaries distally usually black, light-brown, dark-brown, or olivaceous, sometimes. Corollas: staminate 2.5–3 mm;
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  • light-brown to brown, obovoid to subglobose, 1.5–2 mm, shorter than tepals, walls thin, smooth or indistinctly rugose. Seeds dark reddish-brown to nearly
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  • basally; ovary similar in color to foliage. Capsules beige to light or dark-brown, occasionally with purple blotches on apex, ± globose to pyriform, 3–6
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  • unilateral; anthers usually parallel; style arching over filaments, dividing into 3 filiform branches. Capsules irregularly globose, usually rugose. Seeds several
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  • petals deep lemon-yellow adaxially, upper 2 red to purple-brown abaxially, lower 3 dark brown-veined, lateral 2 bearded, lowest 5–12 mm, spur color same
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  • (–5) per fertile culm, 3–16 cm × 1.5–4 mm. Inflorescences dense, dark-brown, green and brown, or gold, 1.1–2.1 cm × 13–18 mm; proximal internode 1–2.5 (–3
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  • Treatment appears in FNA Volume 3. Trees or shrubs, evergreen. Bark dark reddish-brown [brown, or gray], smooth with small wartlike lenticels. Leaves alternate
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  • pilose. Spikelets 1.4-2.4 mm long, 0.5-0.7 mm wide, usually green, glabrous. Lower glumes 0.5-0.9 mm, usually less than 1/2 as long as the spikelets, 3-4-veined
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  • tufts of erect hairs present in axils of secondary-veins, adaxial surface dark green, appressed-hairy; secondary-veins 5–7 per side, most arising from proximal
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  • Utricles at least partly enclosed by hypanthium, opening irregularly. Seeds dark-brown or black, ovoid to lenticular, slightly laterally compressed, shiny, smooth
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  • page 341, 342, 350, 379, 434, 475, 648. Plants small, in mats, pale green, dark green, or brownish. Stems freely branched to subpinnate; paraphyllia few
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  • not beyond anthers. Capsules 25–50 mm, usually wider distally; pedicel 0–10 mm. Seeds brown or mottled with dark spots, 1.5–2 mm, scaly, crest 0.1 mm. w
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  • purple-brown, 2-years old dark reddish and gray, mid brown, or gray; thorns on twigs usually numerous, ± straight to recurved, 1-year old shiny, dark redbrown
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  • or 3-pinnate); axillary hair cells hyaline, 3–4 (–12), basal-cell usually small, brown. Leaves spirally inserted, crowded, isophyllous [often dorsiventrally
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  • green [magenta]. Capsules brown, 1.5–6 × 2–4.5 cm, warty, becoming papery. Seeds 5–25 [–75] per capsule, medium to dark-brown or black, 4–10 × 4–8 mm. Tropical
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  • around achene, glossy metallic sheen; beak white, golden brown, redbrown, brown, or dark-brown, usually white-hyaline at tip, cylindric, unwinged, ± entire
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  • adaxially, upper 2 dark-brown to ± black abaxially, lower 3 dark brown-veined, lateral 2 bearded, lowest 8–21 mm, spur dark greenish to dark-brown, gibbous, 1
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  • pale to dark-brown) scarious (tips not notably dilated; abaxial faces glabrous or sparsely hairy). Receptacles convex, epaleate. Ray-florets usually 13–34+
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  • lanceolate, oblanceolate, or elliptic, flat or semiterete to terete, base usually narrowed, margins entire, apex blunt or rounded to acute or apiculate. Inflorescences
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  • 0.4 mm. Capsules chestnut-brown or brown, 3-locular, widely ellipsoid, (2.2–) 2.5–3.2 (–3.5) × 1.3–1.9 mm. Seeds dark-brown, ellipsoid to lunate, 0.485–0
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  • to circular pore at base of styles. Seeds 10–40 per locule, light-brown to dark-brown, fusiform or ellipsoid. x = 18. United States, Mexico, Central America
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  • yellow or brown. Capsule 1–3 mm, arcuate, inclined to horizontal, strumose, strongly furrowed when dry, somewhat contracted below mouth, dark-brown to reddish-brown;
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  • (sometimes aromatic). Stems usually 1, erect or prostrate to decumbent or ascending (sometimes rooting at nodes), usually branched, glabrous or ± strigillose
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  • old pale to mid, sometimes dark, brown, older gray; thorns on twigs few to numerous, ± straight, 2-years old ± shiny, dark-brown to black, ± stout to ± slender
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  • persistent, medium brown, to 1/2 achene length; anthers yellow, very rarely orange, 2–4 mm; styles 2–3-fid. Achenes medium to dark-brown, rarely yellowish
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  • bicolored, lanceolate, contorted distally, bases and margins light-brown, sometimes with dark central stripe, margins often coarsely dentate. Leaves to 30 cm
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  • becoming reddish-brown and scaly, inner layer red-purple. Branches horizontal or slightly ascending; twigs orangebrown, glabrous. Buds dark red, subtended
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  • with dark tips (rarely all white or all brown), translucent or opaque, 0.3 mm diam. beyond bulbous basal portion; central spines black or dark-brown, 6–25
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  • aggregate, 2–6 cm; primary bract or distal leaves usually exceeding inflorescences. Flowers: tepals usually brown, ovate-oblong, 3–4 mm, margins scarious; inner
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  • marginal; styles 2; stigmas 2. Capsules folliclelike, 2-beaked. Seeds dark-brown, prismatic or angular, cellular-rugulose. x = 17. w United States Peltiphyllum
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  • denticles conspicuous, usually strongly raised on broad base of green tissue; 1st leaves of plumule simple. Achene dark green or reddish-brown, body (excluding
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  • some scales in spikelet usually strongly contorted, 0.5–2 mm (often broken off). Flowers: perianth members (4–) 6 (–8), brown, bristlelike, equaling achene
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  • leaves membranous, hyaline, acute, usually with hyaline awns. Seta dark red to reddish-brown, 5–25 mm. Capsule brown, narrowly ellipsoid to cylindric, 1
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  • green, glabrous; basal usually present at flowering, sessile or petiolate; principal cauline well distributed, proximal usually winged-petiolate, mid sessile
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  • Sporangia intramarginal, sori usually continuous except at pinna or segment apex and sinuses, paraphyses present. Spores brown, trilete, tetrahedral, rugate
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  • glanddotted). Disc-florets 60+; corollas 5–7 mm, lobes yellow; anthers dark-brown to black, appendages yellow. Cypselae 3–5 mm, glabrate; pappi of 2 aristate
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  • (often with purple or purplish brown areas), glabrous or glabrate, sometimes strigillose in leaf-axils. Leaves thin (green to dark green), margins often strigilloso-ciliolate
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  • regularly circumscissile. Seeds usually white or ivory, with reddish or yellowish tint, sometimes dark-brown to dark reddish-brown, broadly lenticular to elliptic-lenticular
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  • straight or curved, rounded, margins usually pinnately lobed, lobes ± deltate, not constricted at bases, terminals usually larger than laterals, dentate or
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  • Inflorescences 1, narrowly elongate-cylindric, (15–) 20–90 × 4–10 mm, usually bearing pink to brown or purple pyriform bulblets proximally and sterile flowers distally;
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  • 115. Plants annual or perennial; usually cespitose, sometimes rhizomatous, rarely stoloniferous. Culms 10-250 cm, usually erect, rarely prostrate, glabrous
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  • Association Stems appressed to substrate, 0.5–1.2 mm diam.; scales reddish to dark-brown, linear-triangular. Leaves irregularly spaced. Petiole to ca. 2 cm. Blade
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  • and white or brown-scarious, 15-veined, cylindric, terete, commissures between sepals veinless, broad, scarious; lobes green, reddish, or brown, 3-veined
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  • inconspicuous, brown, much shorter to ± equaling inflorescence, apex often clear, dentate; bracts deep brown, margins dentate; bracteoles deep brown, margins
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  • fleshy, smooth (slightly rugose in herbarium specimens). Seeds reddish-brown to dark-brown, 1–1.2 mm diam., shiny. Phenology: Flowering summer–fall. Habitat:
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  • stamens 5. Utricles light-brown to brown, subglobose, 1.5–2 mm, shorter than tepals, walls thin, usually smooth. Seeds dark reddish-brown, (0.9–) 1–1.2 mm diam
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  • crown broadly conic to spirelike; leading shoot erect. Bark gray to reddish-brown, thin and scaly (with thin plates), sometimes with resin blisters (especially
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  • awns to 1 mm; calluses less than 1 mm; lemmas 2.5-10 mm, gray to dark purplish-brown, often horizontally banded or mottled, scabrous-hispid or glabrous
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  • of hairs; upper lemmas usually more or less rigid and chartaceous-indurate, usually shiny, glabrous or (rarely) pubescent, usually smooth, sometimes verrucose
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  • sparse, on abaxial surface only. Indusia entire to sharply dentate. Spores dark-brown. Generated Map Legacy Map B.C., Calif., Oreg., Wash., only in the flora
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  • and irregularly plicate, 10–20 × 3–8 cm, abaxially usually maroon or greenish purple, adaxially dark green with whitish veins. Inflorescences: floral bracts
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  • abruptly contracted to long, reflexed acumen. Seta dark-brown, rough. Capsule inclined to horizontal, brown, ovate to elongate, slightly curved; annulus separating
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  • Treatment appears in FNA Volume 23. Plants loosely cespitose, rhizomatous. Culms brown at base. Leaves: basal sheaths not fibrous; sheath fronts membranous; blades
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  • equaling tepals, dehiscence regularly circumscissile. Seeds dark-brown to brownish black or reddish-brown, yellowish white, or ivory, lenticular to subglobose
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  • mouth with wide purple band, usually shallowly U-shaped, greater than 2 mm wide. Lateral spikes pistillate, purple to dark-brown, pendent, (17–) 19–30 × 6-9
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  • stems 1–2 cm (except also caulescent stems to 8 (–20) cm in D. intermedia), usually forming overwintering buds (hibernaculae). On both surfaces in strong sunlight
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  • stipules usually distinct, occasionally connate at base, filiform, 1–1.2 (–2.8) mm, usually glabrous, rarely pilose; petiole 0.4–1 mm, usually glabrous;
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  • appressed-ascending to loosely spreading at maturity, green or brown, often dark-brown in age, lightly several-veined, elliptic-ovate, 2–2.5 × 0.8–1.5
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  • abaxial surfaces light green, initially strigose, usually becoming sparsely so, adaxial green to dark green, shiny, not glaucous, flat or faintly bulging
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  • flagged. Heads usually borne singly (rarely 2–3). Involucres: staminate 5–7 mm; pistillate 5–8 mm. Phyllaries distally brown, dark-brown, black, or olivaceous
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  • 1/2, dark purple; style 15–20-branched. Fruits partially concealed by incurved, somewhat accrescent calyx lobes, 7–9 mm diam.; mericarps 15–20, brown, unwinged
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  • deep to lavender-violet on both surfaces, rarely white, lower 3 usually white basally, dark violet-veined, lateral 2 (and sometimes upper 2) bearded, lowest
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  • bracts usually linear, leaflike, 4–7 times fruit length), (0.5–) 1–1.5 (–3) × (0.1–) 0.2–0.5 cm. Perianth segment 1. Fruits reddish-brown, dark-brown, deep
    6 KB (656 words) - 09:34, 30 July 2020
  • sclerodermis absent or present, usually weak, central strand present, usually strong; axillary hairs of several 1-seriate cells, usually thin-walled or occasionally
    13 KB (835 words) - 07:06, 30 July 2020
  • campanulate, 3–30 mm diam. Phyllaries 5–40 in 3–5 series, unequal (outer usually shorter, ± deltate, inner ± lanceolate), herbaceous (midveins often thickened;
    15 KB (826 words) - 20:23, 29 July 2020
  • moderate-sized to robust, with distinct capitulum; green,yellowish-brown. Stems green to dark reddish-brown, superficial cortex of 2–4 layers of efibrillose, nonornamented
    8 KB (500 words) - 06:47, 30 July 2020
  • 18–39 cm, 0.5–0.8 of total plant height. Leaves: basal sheaths pale-brown to dark-brown; blades green, exceeding culms, 1.4–3.7 mm wide, herbaceous, margins
    7 KB (632 words) - 01:25, 30 July 2020

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