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- many spines (modified leaves of the shoot); spines are absent in some taxa, populations, and environments. A vernacular term for areoles is “spine-clusters40 KB (1,967 words) - 15:27, 15 December 2020
- Inflorescence leaves or bracts tipped with spine or spinelike bristle > 7 6 Inflorescence leaves and bracts not tipped with spine or bristle > 9 7 Leaves triquetrous21 KB (878 words) - 09:28, 30 July 2020
- and glandular (glands sometimes elaborate, apices sometimes gland or spine-tipped). Heads usually radiate, rarely discoid, usually in corymbiform, glomerulate15 KB (799 words) - 23:36, 29 July 2020
- usually spine-tipped, sometimes apiculate). Involucres ± obconic or urceolate, 3–8+ mm diam. (subtended by calyculi of 5–12+ usually spine-tipped bractlets)9 KB (671 words) - 23:40, 29 July 2020
- and middle with bases appressed and apices spreading to erect, usually spine-tipped, innermost usually with erect, flat, often twisted, entire or dentate60 KB (2,205 words) - 13:43, 10 February 2021
- distally, connate proximally, leaflike, semileaflike, or scalelike, not awn-tipped, glabrous or variously pubescent or glandular. Peduncles absent or erect22 KB (1,627 words) - 10:29, 30 July 2020
- or -lobed, spine-tipped) Carthamus 21 Leaf margins not spiny (plants not thistlelike; phyllary apices sometimes apiculate, not spine-tipped) > 22 22 Receptacles275 KB (5,940 words) - 15:30, 15 December 2020
- spreading, usually ± dentate or fringed, linear to ovate appendages, spine-tipped or spineless. Receptacles flat, epaleate, bristly. Florets 10–many; outer21 KB (1,712 words) - 15:30, 15 December 2020
- quantity","spine architecture","spine architecture or pubescence or relief","spine architecture or shape","spine coloration or pubescence or relief","spine pubescence"12 KB (866 words) - 09:21, 30 July 2020
- or succulent), bases ± cuneate, margins entire or toothed (teeth often spine-tipped), faces glabrous or puberulent to villous and/or sericeous. Heads radiate8 KB (643 words) - 23:12, 29 July 2020
- in 2 narrow, glaucous, whitish or brownish bands; apex sharp-pointed, spine-tipped, sharp to touch; resin canal central. Pollen cones ovoid or oblong, with6 KB (342 words) - 00:32, 30 July 2020
- linear, margins entire or irregularly serrate to dentate (teeth usually spine-tipped), faces glabrous, canescent, or puberulent, often sparsely stipitate-glandular11 KB (782 words) - 22:23, 29 July 2020
- duration","segment fragility","spine architecture","spine duration","spine fragility","spine presence","spine quantity","spine texture","stamen quantity","stamen17 KB (804 words) - 09:14, 30 July 2020
- numerous, whorled, distinct, leaflike to subulate or linear, occasionally awn-tipped, thinly pubescent (sometimes appressed), hirsute, villous, strigose, or23 KB (1,142 words) - 10:54, 30 July 2020
- shoots. Leaves alternate, sometimes leaves of elongate shoots reduced to spines and foliage leaves borne only on short-shoots; foliage leaves simple or16 KB (698 words) - 08:36, 30 July 2020
- entire, toothed, or lobed, apices obtuse or acute, appendaged or not, not spine-tipped. Receptacles flat or convex, epaleate, smooth, usually subulate-scaly9 KB (521 words) - 20:00, 29 July 2020
- measurement","spine architecture","spine architecture or pubescence or relief","spine architecture or shape","spine coloration or pubescence or relief","spine pubescence"8 KB (738 words) - 09:22, 30 July 2020
- appressed, margins entire, apices ascending to spreading or reflexed, acute, spine-tipped. Receptacles flat, epaleate, bearing setiform scales (“flattened bristles”)10 KB (613 words) - 20:17, 29 July 2020
- 2–3-flowered with lateral flowers poorly developed); bracts ovatelanceolate, spine-tipped. Flowers bisexual, with 2 bracteoles; perianth segments persistent, 512 KB (822 words) - 09:40, 30 July 2020
- 3-angled (each angle ± winged, wings ± spine-tipped); inner ± compressed (adaxial angles ± winged, wings ± spine-tipped); ribs 0, faces glabrous (peric) arps7 KB (447 words) - 20:53, 29 July 2020