subterminal. Vegetative and reproductive buds vary in size, shape, and position. Three general types of bud size and shape gradation are recognized; namely, alba-type
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Flowers: sepals persistent or deciduous, 5, connate at base, equal or unequal in size, margins scarious, entire, ciliate, or toothed, glandular or not; petals
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attached, clathrate. Petioles not articulate. Blades 1–4-pinnate, of diverse size and shape. Indusia present. x = 36. Worldwide. Species ca. 700 (28 species
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sterile florets below a bisexual floret, sterile florets often reduced in size; rachillas sometimes prolonged beyond the base of the distal florets. Glumes
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[present as glands]; petiolate or not; blade mostly ± uniform in shape and size, sometimes weakly to strongly dimorphic, pinnately veined, secondary venation
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stipules present or absent; petioles present. Leaf blades paired, equal in size (except in Pilea, which may have unequally paired leaves), dotted with linear
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leaves, most sporophylls fertile; megasporophylls and microsporophylls same size, in 4 alternating ranks, appressed, base usually with 2 diverging flaps or
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cilia variously short and appendiculate, or absent. Spores shed singly, size often variable in same collection and capsule, 10–50 µm, smooth to distinctly
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lanceolate-acuminate, external surface lamellose; endostome usually equal in size to exostome, basal membrane high, segments often perforate with gaps along
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polyoicous; perigonia and perichaetia terminal or lateral; perichaetial leaves same size as vegetative leaves or usually larger, sometimes forming rosette, inner
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long-acuminate, acumen erect to wide-spreading; perichaetial leaves same size as or smaller than vegetative leaves, sometimes strongly differentiated,
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mostly aporose, but may be porose in some species. Stem leaves similar in size to branch leaves; varying from triangular to lingulate-spatulate; apex varying
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base, ligules of the lower and upper cauline leaves sometimes differing in size and vestiture; pseudopetioles absent; blades linear to narrowly lanceolate
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micrometer is necessary to determine spore size. Twenty spores should be measured to determine their average size. Normally, megaspores are globose and marked
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upcurving and closing throat or not, lobes 5, rarely 3, all usually ca. equal size or adaxial slightly longer, mostly triangular to deltate, rarely reduced
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characteristics in sagebrush taxonomy are size of the plant, shape and lobing of the vegetative leaves, and size and shape of the flowering heads (A. A.
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fascicles of fleshy roots]; rhizomes homogeneous with branches like primary in size and texture, or heterogeneous, branches cordlike with scalelike leaves, enlarging
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staminate or sterile, varying from similar to the lowest floret in shape, size, and venation to sterile and reduced to an awn column with well-developed
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leaves are usually different in size, shape, and lobing from the distal leaves. Other taxonomic characters include size and habit, corolla color, number
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the marginal cells in cross-section undifferentiated or sharply distinct in size and/or shape from those beneath; transition in areolation from sheath to
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cells and abaxial stereids; medial laminal cells of somewhat uneven shape and size across leaf, more or less quadrate or short-rectangular, often irregularly
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from deciduous branchlets by shorter segments and differences in shape or size of leaves; furrows deep and closed, concealing stomates. Infructescences
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they are relatively invariant in size and form. Size at anthesis varies according to species from 0% to 100% mature size. Lobing, here often expressed as
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exhibit a single size class and are found only on the current year's growth, maturation is annual; if the developing fruits exhibit two size classes with small
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the mouth, without or with an indistinct neck; exothecial cells variable in size and shape, subquadrate to oblong, with thin to thick, straight or flexuose
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unarmed, with glutinous bands on internodes. Leaves in pairs, ± equal in size in each pair, long petiolate, thick and fleshy, base ± symmetric. Inflorescences
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oblong-hexagonal, surface not bulging, smooth, walls thin, lax; basal cells same size as distal cells. North America, Europe, Asia. Species 1. Amblyodon is characteristically
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bracts) opposite or whorled, green or with white margins, similar in shape and size to distal stem leaves, those on branches (dichasial or subcyathial bracts)
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without glutinous bands on internodes. Leaves petiolate, pairs unequal in size in each pair; blade thin or thick and slightly fleshy, base symmetric to
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Etymology: Greek iso, equal, and tri, 3 probably referring to 3 sepals of equal size and shape Treatment appears in FNA Volume 26. Treatment on page 511. Mentioned
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with 1 glume; lower glumes absent; upper glumes and lower lemmas similar in size and texture, exceeded by the upper florets; upper florets turgid, ellipsoidal;
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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, or paniculiform
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white), clawed; stamens (5–)6, proximal 3 fertile, medial different in form, size from others, distal (2–)3 staminodial; filaments glabrous; antherodes commonly
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shaped, margins usually toothed with 1–15 teeth per side, teeth similar in size and structure to those of blades; blade linear, 1-veined, sometimes armed
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densely hairy, hairs 1.5–2mm. Leaf sheath closed. Pinna divisions reduced in size to tip (except B. biternatum, B. dissectum, and B. oneidense with undivided
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subtending pleiochasia (pleiochasial bracts) whorled, green, similar in shape and size to distal stem leaves or distinctly different, those on branches and subtending
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the upper paleas; upper paleas similar to the upper lemmas in texture and size; lodicules 3, cuneate; anthers 3. Caryopses plano-convex; embryos 1/5–1/2
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Copyright: Flora of North America Association Plants extremely variable in size, 5–50 cm, those in leaf mold (only form known in flora) usually small, those
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blade ovate-lanceolate, 2–7 × 0.7–3.2 cm (mean 4.2 × 1.8 cm), decreasing in size toward base of shoot, base acute, apex acute, abaxial surface glaucous, adaxial
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serrate, spinulose or not; proximal pinnae reduced (several pairs), same size as or enlarged relative to more distal pinnae, sessile to petiolulate, equilateral
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spreading, triangular, lanceolate to oblanceolate, monomorphic or varying in size according to seasonal growth patterns; juvenile (basal or proximal) leaves
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longibracteata); perigonial leaf apex acute to long-acuminate; perichaetial leaves same size as vegetative leaves or sometimes strongly differentiated, lanceolate to
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Plants clear green to olive green to dark red-brown to dull black, moderate in size, pulvinate to mat-forming. Stems erect, irregularly branched; rhizoids present;
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Seeds horizontal or vertical, not distinctly dimorphic, sometimes variable in size and color, lenticular; seed coat black or brown, shiny, usually finely reticulate
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branch. Leaves larger distally, rosulate, crowded, erect-spreading, reduced in size proximally, oblong-ovate to obovate or spathulate, usually acute or acuminate
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Treatment on page 14. Mentioned on page 9, 10, 28, 29. Plants small to medium-sized, green, yellowish, or sometimes brownish, acrocarpous. Stems 2-fid by subfloral
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blades (1-nerved) ovate, elliptic, oblong, lanceolate, or linear (± uniform in size), margins entire, faces glabrate, scabrous, cottony, or woolly, eglandular
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perigonial leaves often enlarged and distinctly rosulate; perichaetial leaves same size as vegetative leaves, not forming rosette, inner leaves differentiated, more
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articulated. Flowers: sepals persistent, 5, connate at base, equal or unequal in size, margins entire, stipitate-glandular or eglandular, surfaces glabrous or
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Subfamily Cactoideae is the most diverse group of the Cactaceae, in terms of size, architecture, habitat, and habit. The vast majority of North American species
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