Lignothera). Fruit a dry capsule, usually dehiscent, sometimes indehiscent. Seeds few to numerous, without hairs or wings, [very rarely with asymmetrical dry wing
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evergreen or deciduous, shrubs sometimes rhizomatous. Winter buds sessile, with few-to-many imbricate scales (2 valvate scales enclosing imbricate scales in Castanea);
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20 or more species of Carex may be found within a few hectares. All Carex are perennial, but a few species may fruit in their first year and not persist
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craspedodromous, surfaces glabrous to tomentose. Inflorescences terminal on few-leaved annual short-shoots that usually arise from a subterminal bud on a
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flowers are absent. The succulent trees, shrubs, mat-forming subshrubs, and few geophytes of subfam. Opuntioideae have mostly very short-lived, terete, cylindric
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biennial. Stems short, erect, simple or with a few branches, central strand present, basal rhizoids few. Leaves usually larger and more crowded distally
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with some shrubs and a few small to medium-sized trees. Most species occur in open habitats, ranging from dry to wet, with a few species of Ludwigia aquatic
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base not cuneate. Inflorescences corymbs or panicles, commonly solitary or few, 1–16 (–50) -flowered. Pedicels: bracts present (absent in sect. Pimpinellifoliae)
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sessile, blade margins usually entire, sometimes repand to dentate. Racemes (few to several-flowered, proximalmost flowers rarely bracteate), elongated or
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proximal portion) to often fibrillose in distal portion of leaf, aporose or with few pores and septate to nonseptate. Branches dimorphic, pendent branches more
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Isophysis], 3-locular [1-locular]; placentation axile [parietal]; ovules 2–few, anatropous; style single, filiform at least proximally, usually 3-branched
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terrestrial or epiphytic. Roots lacking root hairs, unbranched or with a few narrow lateral branches, in 1 species dichotomously branched. Stems simple
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aneuploid series is clear, as well as widespread hybridization in a few species, although few reports of hybridization are documented (T. L. Wendt 1978; A. J
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cauline, mostly alternate, reduced proximally or forming basal rosettes in a few species; petiole absent or present; blade fleshy or not, leathery or not,
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extremely diverse, simple to 4-pinnate, commonly with tiny glandular-hairs and a few linear scales, rarely with spreading hairs. Veins free to anastomosing. Sori
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pinnae; veins free to regularly anastomosing, commonly simple (1-forked in a few species, e.g., Thelypteris palustris) and reaching margin; indument various
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pistillate, rarely, gynecandrous with few staminate flowers, pedunculate, prophyllate; terminal spike gynecandrous with few perigynia, staminate, or pistillate
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layers; apex rounded-obtuse to more commonly narrowly acute; costa ending a few cells before the apex to short-excurrent or long-excurrent as an awn, sometimes
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Winter buds stipitate or sessile, with either 2–3 valvate scales (stipules) or few-to-many imbricate scales (or occasionally naked); terminal bud absent. Leaves
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smooth, infrequently papillose; axillary hairs 1-seriate, filiform. Leaves in few to numerous pairs, pinnately or palmately arranged, changing little to strongly
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evenly foliate, not or strongly branched; rhizoids usually few, micronemata present, macronemata few or absent. Leaves imbricate to loosely set and slightly
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epidermal layers of cells differentiated or undifferentiated, sometimes only a few cells in both layers enlarged; laminal cell-walls weakly to strongly bulging
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pendent. Stems long to short-creeping, branched or not, bearing scales and few to numerous roots, usually dictyostelic. Leaves monomorphic to dimorphic,
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sometimes branched; pseudoparaphyllia foliose to linear or peglike; rhizoids few, usually arising from base of leaves. Stem and branch leaves usually similar
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lanceolate to ovate (wider if solitary), flat to folded, 6–60 cm, glaucous in a few species, glabrous, base narrowed gradually or abruptly to petiole, margins
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to leaf-scars on old wood or to leaves on new shoots, solitary flowers or few-flowered fascicles, pedunculate; bracts or bracteoles present or absent. Flowers
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in field and herbarium, that lack fruit or have only immature fruit. Very few species require mature fruit for proper diagnosis; most can be adequately
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previous year or at base of current-years growth; pistillate catkins solitary or few-flowered spikes [or many-flowered racemes]. Flowers unisexual, staminate and
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(4–) 20–120 (–150) cm (bases often woody). Stems usually strictly erect, few-branched, glabrous or hispidulous, villous, or tomentose, usually gland-dotted
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deciduous or evergreen, alternate; stipules present; tendrils often present (few or rudimentary in S. hugeri and S. ecirrhata, absent in S. biltmoreana), paired
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Linnaeus) and cedar waxwings (Bombycilla cedrorum Vieillot) in North America. A few orange- or red-fruited species (C. franchetii, C. lacteus, C. pannosus, and
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by subfloral innovations, stolons absent (present in Rhodobryum); rhizoids few-to-many, color various, smooth to papillose, micronemata and/or macronemata
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finely dissected; ultimate divisions lobed or unlobed, margins entire or few-toothed. Inflorescences terminal and/or axillary, on current-years stems;
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cauline (roots seldom fleshy, often branched; leaf margins with relatively few or no callous denticles; 2n = 40, 44, or 46 or polyploid derivatives) Packera
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unbranched or irregularly 2- to occasionally multifid when sterile; rhizoids few-to-many, pigmented, smooth to papillose, often bearing multicellular tubers
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branches], in tufts, cushions, or gregarious, rarely single or in tufts of a few; dark green to yellowish-brown stems. Stems simple or forked; central strand
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or 4-8 papillar stigmatic surfaces. Capsules dehiscent, 2-valved. Seeds few-many, reniform to subglobose, elaiosome usually present. x = 8. Temperate
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Common names: Aster Etymology: Greek eurys, wide, and baios, few, perhaps alluding to the few, wide-spreading ray florets Basionym: Aster subg. Eurybia Cassini
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occur entirely east of the Rocky Mountains. Among the remaining species, a few of which are widespread in western North America, 42 are endemic to the California
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to ± creeping, freely and irregularly branched to subpinnate; paraphyllia few or absent; pseudoparaphyllia foliose. Leaves erect to erect-spreading or occasionally
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base, somewhat to markedly clasping, attachment points linear; basal leaves few to several in rosettes, blade linear, lanceolate, oblanceolate, spatulate
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4. Treatment on page 211. Mentioned on page 99, 198. Plants unbranched or few branched, deep-seated in substrate or rising 1–15 cm above substrate. Roots
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508, 511, 633. Shrubs or trees, (20–) 30–100 (–140) dm. Stems: trunks 1–few, usually ± erect, bark plated, ± exfoliating; compound thorns on trunks sometimes
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absent or to 1 mm (to 3.7 mm in Micromitrium synoicum), rhizoids absent or few. Leaves rarely more than 12, the proximal small, broadly triangular to ovate
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single longitudinal groove adaxially, glabrous or pubescent, usually with a few scales at base, with single vascular-bundle. Blade linear to ovate-deltate
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comose or evenly foliate, freely branching by subfloral innovations; rhizoids few-to-many, micronemata and macronemata present. Leaves weakly to strongly contorted
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in the unit, one is usually sessile and the other two pedicellate, but a few genera, such as Polytrias, have two sessile spikelets and one pedicellate
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sometimes present, branched, cells elongate; pseudoparaphyllia foliose; rhizoids few, at base of stems and apices of attenuate branches. Stem-leaves very broadly
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single lines on each side of stem valleys; branches generally lacking or few (except E. ramosissimum). Cones sharply pointed at apex (except E. laevigatum)
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pistillate solitary or few-flowered clusters. Flowers usually unisexual, staminate and pistillate on same plants, along with a few bisexual flowers, pedicellate
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vernal rosettes of subglobose leaves on threadlike petioles, and relatively few flowers. The most-advanced inflorescence and flowers are in hummingbird-pollinated
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pleiochasia; individual dichasial or pleiochasial branches unbranched or few-branched at one or more successive nodes; bracts subtending dichasia and pleiochasia
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the solitary habit is rare, often a result of poor or droughty habitat. A few can be termed annual or short-lived perennials (i.e., X. brevifolia, X. flabelliformis
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hyalodermis present or partial > 2 1 Stems with hyalodermis absent > 3 2 Alar cells few, strongly inflated, regions small, from margins at most 50% distance to costa;
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sheathing stem. Inflorescences solitary, terminal, lax to dense spikes. Flowers few-to-many, usually resupinate (not resupinate in P. nivea), sometimes showy;
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glossy, margins entire, toothed, fringed, or erose; scales on ovary none or few, narrow or rudimentary, entire or erose, axils naked, spineless; stigma lobes
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number of species and their hybrids in only a few genera; the majority of orchids are not commonly cultivated. Few orchids are economically important outside
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(sometimes appearing lateral) panicles of few-to-many heads, sympodial; bracteoles absent proximal to perianth. Flowers in few-flowered heads. Capsules 3-locular
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clumps. Thallose protonematal flaps persistent and usually present. Stems few, very short, less than 0.05 cm; flagelliform shoots may occur at the base
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microspores. Gametophytes remaining within spores; microgametophytes of only a few cells; megagametophytes protruding from spores, each bearing 1 simple archegonium
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often occur along the distal margins of the lemmas. When present, they may be few and irregularly scattered, with gaps between them that are either wider than
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or connected to spine cluster by very broad groove, woolly; areolar glands few or absent; cortex and pith highly mucilaginous. Spines 2–17 (–29); radial
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Archegoniate plants composed of a perichaetium of a few, mainly nonchlorophyllose ecostate leaves that enclose very few archegonia. Antheridial plants reduced to
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Etymology: Greek tri, 3-fold, and phoros, bearing, possibly in reference to the few-flowered inflorescence or the 3 crests on the lip of the type species Treatment
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characteristics alone. Although some workers have aggregated species into a few large genera (e.g., J. T. Mickel 1979b), most tend to recognize smaller segregate
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is unbarbed except at the apex, which terminates with four (or sometimes fewer) retrorse barbs. Complex grappling-hook trichomes have a tapered stalk that
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cylindric, smooth or distinctly furrowed; gymnostomous or peristomate, stomata few; peristome single, double or absent, exostome frequently reduced to small
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Stems erect, yellowish green or brown to purple, glabrous; sheathing bracts few, reduced. Rhizomes branching, coralloid; scales minute. Inflorescences laxly
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usually borne digitately, occasionally in 2-several whorls, sometimes with a few isolated branches below the primary whorl (s), all branches usually exceeding
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stoloniferous; secondary stems ascending, irregularly branched, branches few-to-many, curved or in whorls; paraphyllia absent; radiculose on primary-stems
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papery. Stems simple or branched. Leaves few; blade pleated, lanceolate to ± linear. Inflorescences rhipidiate, few-flowered; spathes green, unequal, outer
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ebracteate; stamens 3–5. Pistillate flowers lacking perianth, pistil naked, or in few species with (1–) 3–5-lobed perianth, commonly enclosed within pair of foliaceous
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branched, woody caudices or bulblike structures; usually forming colonies with few-to-many rosettes. Stems to 25 dm. Leaves forming rosettes; blade linear, not
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produced regularly along stem or only distally; paraphyllia absent or present, few-to-many, simple or branched; pseudoparaphyllia filamentous to foliose; rhizoids
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Mentioned on page 497, 498. Herbs, terrestrial to semiepiphytic, glabrous. Roots few, fibrous, 0.3–1 mm wide. Stems swollen at base into pseudobulb, ± globose
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perichaetial leaves. Capsule erect, immersed to barely exserted, symmetric; stomata few, proximal; annulus revoluble; operculum conic-rostrate to obliquely rostrate;
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gold-green, brown with age. Stems irregularly branched; paraphyllia many, few on older stems, or sometimes absent, filamentous to foliose, cells smooth
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congested, sometimes becoming open in fruit, flowers mostly arranged in 1–few (–several in I. gordonii var. wasatchensis) loose to capitate glomerules.
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trigonous, (6–) 10–100 (–125) cm (high-climbing into trees), weak or wiry. Leaves few-to-many per culm, cauline, 3-ranked; sheaths present; ligules usually well
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entire to crisped. Inflorescences axillary and terminal in open or congested, few or repeatedly branched cymes (single in axils, especially in cleistogamous
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reflexed; carpels cartilaginous; styles sometimes persistent. Seeds absent or few. x = 17. North America, nw Mexico, Europe, e, w Asia, n Africa Species ca
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branches, usually with clavate paraphyses; perichaetia at stem apex, with a few filiform paraphyses. Seta erect, 0.5–13 (–30) mm. Capsule stegocarpous, erect
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dioicous, occasionally monoicous. Capsule equal to or less than 2 mm, with few-to-many pseudostomata. Spores typically less than 30 µm, coarsely to finely
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stalks. Perichaetia terminal but quickly overtopped by innovations; leaves few, short. Seta single or several from a perichaetium, smooth, straight or flexuous
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gemmiferous leaves, teniolae absent (teniola-like features rarely present in a few taxa); margins of distal lamina mostly thickened and toothed, rarely 1-stratose
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Treatment on page 485. Mentioned on page 470, 482, 486. Plants simple or with a few short branches, (6–) 10–30 cm, relatively slender, base sometimes slightly
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surface, end walls not thickened. Sexual condition dioicous. Capsule with few pseudostomata. Spores 22–41 µm, with or without raised surface sculpture on
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retrorsely hairy, glaucous or not. Leaves basal and cauline, basals sometimes few, or cauline, opposite, sometimes alternate, rarely whorled or subalternate
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elliptic in cross-section or variously angled to flattened. Flowers diurnal (a few species remaining open at night) [or nocturnal], bisexual (at least appearing
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ensiform, not narrowed near base. Scape solid. Inflorescences umbellate, few to many-flowered, subtended by 2 large, lanceolate, scarious bracts. Flowers
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2 lateral papillae. Capsules indehiscent or dehiscent and 2-valved. Seeds few-many, elaiosome usually present. x = 8. Temperate North America and eastern
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main stems are orthotropic, indeterminate, persistent, and (beyond the first few seedling nodes) bear only scalelike leaves, while the ultimate branches are
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ozarkana 14 Sepals glabrous or with eglandular hairs only (very rarely a few minute glandular hairs at base). > 15 14 Sepals pubescent with glandular and
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page 119. Plants short-lived, rooted or floating. Stems erect, bearing a few thin scales. Leaves dimorphic, erect to spreading, with adventitious-bud initials
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sinuate, dentate, or, rarely, pinnately lobed; cauline usually absent, rarely few present, (sub) sessile, blade margins usually entire, rarely dentate or pinnately
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pale gray-brown, older gray; thorns on twigs absent (particularly mature) or few to numerous, ± straight to ± recurved, 2-years old dark-brown to black, ±
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mycorrhizal, filiform or stoutly terete. Stems monopodial, unbranched or with few branches, erect, slender; rhizomes present or absent. Leaves present or absent
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of leaves on very short stems), cymose or cymulose, not appearing secund, few to many-flowered, or flowers solitary and axillary; peduncle very short-to-elongate
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antheridia few. Perichaetial leaves often with broader and longer bases more abruptly narrowed distally than stem-leaves, paraphyses absent, archegonia few. Seta
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condition autoicous or dioicous; perigonial shoots with few, short-lingulate leaves enclosing paraphyses and few antheridia; paraphyses filamentous; interior perichaetial
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