abaxially, 1, sometimes to 3-nerved) cordate to elliptic, oblanceolate, or spatulate (basal), ovate, elliptic, lanceolate, oblanceolate, or linear (cauline
62 KB (1,546 words) - 15:28, 15 December 2020
alternate; petiolate (mostly basal) or sessile; blades pinnately nerved, elliptic, lanceolate, linear, lyrate, orbiculate, ovate, reniform, or spatulate
40 KB (1,171 words) - 21:16, 29 July 2020
fruit, 5; upper sepal 1, spurred, 8-24 mm; lateral sepals 2, ± ovate to elliptic, 8-18 mm; lower sepals 2, similar to lateral sepals; upper petals 2, spurred
9 KB (574 words) - 08:34, 30 July 2020
obtrullate, spatulate, fan-shaped, or obovate to oblanceolate, linear to oblong, elliptic or rhombic, to lanceolate, ovate, triangular, deltate, round, or reniform
27 KB (988 words) - 13:15, 30 July 2020
rarely undulate when moist, orbicular, spatulate, lingulate, ligulate, elliptic, ovate, ovatelanceolate, or obovate; base decurrent or not; margins usually
16 KB (638 words) - 07:40, 30 July 2020
completely; petiole base articulated with ocrea or not; blade linear, lanceolate, elliptic, ovate, or subround, margins entire. Inflorescences axillary or axillary
11 KB (904 words) - 10:08, 30 July 2020
alternate; usually petiolate, sometimes sessile; blades mostly cordate, deltate, elliptic, lanceolate, linear, oblanceolate, oblong, obovate, ovate, rhombic, or
17 KB (818 words) - 23:57, 29 July 2020
tomentose to floccose or glabrous; blade oblong-ovate or oblanceolate to elliptic to oval, 0.3–3 (–4) × 0.1–2.5 cm, densely lanate to tomentose or floccose
27 KB (1,609 words) - 10:41, 30 July 2020
deltate or ovate to lanceolate or linear (and intermediate shapes, sometimes elliptic, oblong, rhombic, or suborbiculate, sometimes pinnatifid, 1–2-pinnately
17 KB (791 words) - 22:42, 29 July 2020
stipules persistent, basally adnate to petiole, linear to lanceolate or elliptic, margins entire or pinnately divided into linear to filiform segments;
16 KB (987 words) - 14:06, 30 July 2020
to yellow-green. Ceanothus martini 23 Shrubs 1–4 m; leaf blades elliptic, oblong-elliptic, lanceolate, or ovate; inflorescences racemelike to paniclelike
15 KB (437 words) - 18:13, 29 July 2020
stems 300–800(–1200) mm. > 10 10 Leaf blades elliptic or oblong-elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic-oblanceolate, 4–17 mm wide; corolla limbs 30–45
28 KB (1,133 words) - 19:01, 29 July 2020
incised or broadly crenate, terminal: petiolule (1–) 5–20 (–40) mm, blade elliptic, lanceolate, oblong, ovate, suborbiculate, obovate, and/or cordate, base
5 KB (546 words) - 13:49, 30 July 2020
(1981), and B. Nordenstam (1977[1978]). Senecionid shrubs with ovate to elliptic, pinnately divided leaf blades mostly 3–8+ cm and radiate heads with yellow
23 KB (1,021 words) - 21:10, 29 July 2020
sometimes sessile or subsessile, blades 1-nerved, spatulate to oblanceolate, elliptic, or ovate to cordate, margins coarsely serrate to crenate or entire; cauline
7 KB (663 words) - 21:03, 29 July 2020
to slightly rugose, stramineous to dark-brown. Caryopses orbicular to elliptical, planoconvex or flattened, white, yellow, or brown, x = 10, 12. Conn.
22 KB (1,167 words) - 04:18, 30 July 2020
narrowly lanceolate, inconspicuous, margins entire; petiole present; blade elliptic to linear, orbiculate, lanceolate, or ovate, [0.3–] 0.4–15 (–21) cm, leathery
31 KB (1,652 words) - 14:31, 30 July 2020
purple, yellow, or white, plane (base saccate in R. ficaria), oblong to elliptic, ovate, or lanceolate, 1-15 mm; petals 0-22 (-150), distinct, yellow, rarely
15 KB (560 words) - 08:33, 30 July 2020
persistent), erect, ascending, or, rarely, spreading, ovate or oblong [elliptic], lateral pair not saccate or subsaccate basally; petals (erect or ascending
85 KB (2,094 words) - 12:08, 30 July 2020
Leaves crowded, blades elliptic to obovate, marginal teeth 5–9. Ceanothus prostratus 13 Leaves not crowded, blades widely elliptic, obovate, or suborbiculate
14 KB (504 words) - 18:27, 29 July 2020
or absent. > 23 23 Proximal leaf blades ovate to ovate-elliptic, distal ones linear to elliptic-linear, more than 6 times as long as wide. Euphorbia angusta
36 KB (819 words) - 18:21, 29 July 2020
not. Leaves winter-persistent to deciduous, cauline; stipules filiform or elliptic to ovate, margins entire; petiole present; blade reniform to orbiculate
35 KB (2,155 words) - 15:31, 15 December 2020
petiolate, blade obovate, ovate, spatulate, oblanceolate, elliptic-lanceolate, lanceolate, elliptic, oblong, or linear, margins entire. Thyrses continuous
29 KB (982 words) - 19:10, 29 July 2020
(basal in some species) or sessile (cauline); blade 1–5-veined, linear or elliptic to broadly ovate, not succulent (except in C. bialynickii, C. regelii,
21 KB (1,044 words) - 10:15, 30 July 2020
short-campanulate, rarely short-tubular, lobes ± ovate, lanceolate, round, elliptic, oblong, obovate, oblanceolate, truncate, linear, or orbiculate; corolla
20 KB (1,850 words) - 19:05, 29 July 2020
occasionally pseudopetiolate; blade linear, lanceolate, oblanceolate, ovate, or elliptic, fibrous, thin and flexible, thick and rigid or succulent, or fibrous,
13 KB (701 words) - 06:10, 30 July 2020
reniform to narrowly elliptic in outline, leaflets 3–15(–41); petals oblanceolate or obovate to obcordate to nearly round, rarely elliptic; carpels 3–260. Potentilla
9 KB (450 words) - 13:53, 30 July 2020
linear-lanceolate, or linear-elliptic to elliptic, 0.4–5 mm wide; inflorescences racemes. > 11 11 Leaf blades linear-elliptic to elliptic; calyx lobes triangular-lanceolate;
23 KB (952 words) - 19:30, 29 July 2020
shed as unit through abscission of thin-walled cells at base. Seeds many, elliptic, 2–4 mm, bearing white or yellowish, large, oily, myrmecochorous elaiosome
30 KB (822 words) - 06:13, 30 July 2020
tardily falling, 18–40 in (2–) 3–7 series, not notably nerved, ovate to elliptic or lanceolate, usually unequal (herbaceous to petaloid, margins often hyaline
24 KB (826 words) - 22:52, 29 July 2020
petiolate or sessile; blades usually 3-nerved from bases, deltate, lance-elliptic, lance-linear, lanceolate, lanceovate, lance-rhombic, linear, oblong, obovate
17 KB (617 words) - 22:47, 29 July 2020
27 Leaves alternate (rarely opposite in Xylococcus), blade narrowly elliptic, elliptic, ovate, broadly ovate, obovate, or oblanceolate; fruits baccate or
33 KB (1,383 words) - 13:10, 30 July 2020
filaments glabrous Tradescantia leiandra 3 Leaves lanceolate-elliptic to oblong-elliptic or ovate, apex obtuse to abruptly acute-apiculate; stamen filaments
17 KB (671 words) - 00:52, 30 July 2020
to dark green or blue-green, matte, usually ± rhombic, sometimes ovate, elliptic-oblong, or suborbiculate, 2–6 (–9.5) cm, thin to chartaceous, sometimes
20 KB (1,294 words) - 13:44, 30 July 2020
strengthened with conspicuous spiral fibrils, small to large, round to elliptic and sometimes ringed pores occur along commissures or rarely on cell lumen
16 KB (943 words) - 06:58, 30 July 2020
linear, linear-lanceolate, linear-oblanceolate, lanceolate, oblanceolate, elliptic, oblong, obovate, spatulate, or awl-shaped, margins glandular-toothed or
10 KB (551 words) - 18:27, 29 July 2020
dorsal sepal ovate-elliptic, elliptic-obovate, linear-elliptic, or lanceolate; lateral sepals semiorbiculate-elliptic, ovate, linear-elliptic, or oblong-lanceolate
10 KB (521 words) - 05:27, 30 July 2020
usually smaller); petiolate or sessile; blades mostly cordate, deltate, elliptic, lanceolate, linear, oblanceolate, oblong, obovate, ovate, or spatulate
16 KB (834 words) - 23:57, 29 July 2020
segments green or sometimes reddish to purple, usually flattened, circular, elliptic, ovate, lanceolate, or obovate to oblanceolate, 2–60 (–120) × 1.2–40 cm
34 KB (1,067 words) - 09:16, 30 July 2020
styles 2.5–5 mm Hypericum paucifolium 6 Leaf blades elliptic, lanceolate, linear-lanceolate, oblong-elliptic, obovate, or ovate, 3–18 mm wide; petals not red
10 KB (391 words) - 11:15, 30 July 2020
hemiamphistomatous, or hypostomatous, (usually pinnately veined), narrowly to broadly elliptic, obovate, subcircular, circular, oblanceolate, narrowly oblong, oblong
22 KB (876 words) - 12:17, 30 July 2020
sometimes ± slender. Leaves: blade ± ovate or rhombic to rhombic-elliptic or broadly elliptic, 3–8 (–12) cm, coriaceous or thin, lobes 0 or 3–5 (–8) per side
6 KB (606 words) - 14:37, 30 July 2020
round, orbiculate, ovate, obovate, lanceolate, oblanceolate, spatulate, elliptic, or oblong, rarely linear, margins entire or toothed. Thyrses continuous
10 KB (581 words) - 19:05, 29 July 2020
caducous, free, linear, margins entire; petiole present; blade elliptic, elliptic-oblong, elliptic-oval, ovate, oval, oblanceolate, oblong, oblong-ovate, obovate
22 KB (1,558 words) - 13:48, 30 July 2020
oblanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, rarely obovate or elliptic, broadest distally or atmiddle Silene menziesii 41 Leaf blades narrowly lanceolate to elliptic- or
36 KB (1,364 words) - 10:24, 30 July 2020
or narrowly elliptic. Hypericum adpressum 15 Herbs, 1–3(–5) dm, relatively slender; leaf blades elliptic or oblanceolate to oblong-elliptic. Hypericum ellipticum
13 KB (445 words) - 11:15, 30 July 2020
reticulate, raised abaxially), spatulate, ovate-oblanceolate, ovate, elliptic, elliptic-oblong, oblanceolate, linear-lanceolate, or (usually distal) linear
79 KB (1,886 words) - 20:55, 29 July 2020
conspicuously so); blade mid to dark green, ovate, rhombic, elliptic, or broadly elliptic, (1.5–) 3–6 (–9) cm, thin to chartaceous, base cuneate to rounded
16 KB (1,084 words) - 14:44, 30 July 2020
palmately lobed, sometimes compound), or lobes or leaflets, mostly deltate, elliptic, filiform, lanceolate, linear, oblanceolate, or ovate, ultimate margins
12 KB (744 words) - 23:22, 29 July 2020
lanceolate or spatulate, scarious; blade needlelike or often spatulate to elliptic or suborbiculate, seldom succulent. Inflorescences terminal or axillary
9 KB (597 words) - 10:32, 30 July 2020
or whorled, petiolate or sessile; blade 1-veined from base, linear to elliptic or ovate, oblanceolate, or orbiculate, margins revolute. Inflorescences
11 KB (511 words) - 11:39, 30 July 2020
ecostate; alar cells sometimes differentiated; medial laminal cells narrowly elliptic to linear-flexuose, prosenchymatous. Branch leaves usually smaller, narrower;
9 KB (433 words) - 07:44, 30 July 2020
basal, basal and cauline, or cauline; petiolate or sessile; blades mostly elliptic, lanceolate, oblanceolate, oblong, or spatulate, margins entire, denticulate
26 KB (1,108 words) - 20:14, 29 July 2020
16 Lips without spurs; leaves plicate. > 17 17 Leaves basal, solitary, elliptic, withering by anthesis; column 7 mm; pollinia 4; mature capsules pendent
41 KB (2,210 words) - 05:19, 30 July 2020
as long as lip; widespread. Platanthera obtusata 18 Lip elliptic to elliptic-oblong or elliptic-lanceolate; spur cylindric to clavate, ± 2 times as long
17 KB (518 words) - 05:23, 30 July 2020
overtopping 1st-order ones). Leaf-blades mostly lanceolate, elliptic, ovatelanceolate, or ovate-elliptic, base cuneate, or in some species broadly cuneate, rounded
5 KB (901 words) - 10:05, 30 July 2020
straight to ± recurved, slender to stout. Leaves: blade ± rhombic to ± elliptic, elliptic-oblong, or ovate-rhombic, sometimes ± obovate, oblanceolate, or suborbiculate
8 KB (677 words) - 14:35, 30 July 2020
before flowering) usually petiolate, blades linear, lanceolate to ovate, or elliptic to oblanceolate, sometimes lobed, bases attenuate, cuneate, or rounded
10 KB (649 words) - 22:36, 29 July 2020
anthers pink to purple (orange-pink in P. hickmanii). Achenes ovate to elliptic or lanceolate, 3-gonous, shiny or dull, smooth, tubercled, or longitudinally
11 KB (812 words) - 10:09, 30 July 2020
to erect-spreading when moist, narrowly lanceolate, ovatelanceolate, or elliptic; base decurrent or not; margins plane or revolute, finely serrate to serrulate
15 KB (690 words) - 07:39, 30 July 2020
not armed, not fleshy. Leaves alternate, sessile; blade [obovate-elliptic, elliptic], lanceolate, linear-lanceolate, linear, or filiform, flat or convolute
17 KB (1,353 words) - 09:33, 30 July 2020
absent; petiole absent or present; blade obovate, oblong, oblong-obovate, elliptic, linear, spatulate, or oblanceolate to ovate, reniform, or round, lobed
21 KB (1,151 words) - 12:59, 30 July 2020
in 1–2 series, (erect or reflexed in fruit) distinct or connate, mostly elliptic, lanceolate, ovate, or obovate, usually ± equal, mostly herbaceous, sometimes
11 KB (627 words) - 23:52, 29 July 2020
Treatment on page 206. Plants usually perennial, sometimes annual. Spikelets elliptic to lanceolate, more or less terete initially, sometimes becoming laterally
11 KB (779 words) - 02:52, 30 July 2020
mm; drupe stones 2; leaf blades lanceolate, elliptic-lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate, elliptic, or elliptic-oblong, margins crenulate, crenulate-serrate
12 KB (452 words) - 18:31, 29 July 2020
(secondary nerves raised and reticulate in C. eremobius), filiform, lanceolate, elliptic, or obovate (flat or sulcate, sometimes twisted or folded), margins entire
12 KB (864 words) - 21:46, 29 July 2020
alternate or mostly alternate; sessile or petiolate; blades (or lobes) deltate, elliptic, filiform, lanceolate, linear, obovate, ovate, or rhombic (and most intermediate
16 KB (728 words) - 23:11, 29 July 2020
sometimes alternate) or mostly alternate; petiolate or sessile; blades usually elliptic, filiform, lanceolate, linear, or ovate, often 1 (–2) -pinnately lobed
11 KB (674 words) - 23:30, 29 July 2020
tetrads, rarely as monads. > 17 17 Leaf blades narrowly elliptic to broadly lanceolate-elliptic or suborbiculate; petals 1.1–3 mm; sepals 1.8–5 mm, about
30 KB (1,654 words) - 21:01, 7 June 2022
confluent with distalmost lateral pair, not or scarcely overlapping, obovate or elliptic-ovate to flabellate or rhombic, margins flat, singly or doubly toothed
22 KB (1,357 words) - 14:09, 30 July 2020
1-odd-pinnately compound; petioles usually present. Simple leaves: blade narrowly elliptic, oblanceolate, or obovate, 1.2-7.5 cm. Compound leaves: rachis, when present
16 KB (698 words) - 08:36, 30 July 2020
cauline; alternate; sessile or petiolate; blades cordate, ovate, obovate, elliptic, or oblong to spatulate, oblanceolate, or lanceolate, usually gradually
20 KB (1,017 words) - 22:19, 29 July 2020
reduced proximally, usually contorted when dry, spreading when wet, broadly elliptic to obovate, usually concave, margins plane to somewhat incurved, entire
12 KB (464 words) - 06:47, 30 July 2020
sporangium in apogamous spp.). Gametophytes green, aboveground, cordate or elliptic, glabrous or sometimes glandular; archegonia and antheridia borne on lower
9 KB (348 words) - 00:33, 30 July 2020
petiolate, rarely nearly sessile; stipules free from base of leaf-blade; blade elliptic to ovate, leathery, base cuneate to rounded or cordate, margins entire
23 KB (1,207 words) - 00:56, 30 July 2020
3-nerved or 5-nerved from at or near bases) mostly rhombic, deltate, ovate, or elliptic to lanceolate or lance-linear (sometimes intermediate shapes), sometimes
12 KB (721 words) - 23:07, 29 July 2020
Inflorescences umbels, pedunculate; drupes 8–10 mm; leaf blades oblong to elliptic or obovate-elliptic, margins serrulate to crenulate to nearly entire; drupe stones
10 KB (499 words) - 18:33, 29 July 2020
leaves; blade oblanceolate, obovate, elliptic, ovate, or orbiculate, herbaceous, major leaflets 1–26, rhombic, elliptic, oblong, obovate, oblanceolate, orbiculate
22 KB (1,259 words) - 14:34, 30 July 2020
flat, occasionally irregularly wavy or transversely undulate when moist, elliptic, obovate, oblong, oblong-lingulate, oblongelliptic, or rarely orbicular
15 KB (750 words) - 07:41, 30 July 2020
yellow, or yellowish white, usually obcordate to obovate, sometimes rhombic, elliptic, or rhombic-ovate; stigma deeply divided into 4 linear lobes. Capsules
10 KB (907 words) - 21:01, 7 June 2022
margin toothed; hyaline cells fibrillose; convex surface pores round to elliptic, usually with 1 at each corner of three adjacent hyaline cells; chlorophyllous
12 KB (538 words) - 07:01, 30 July 2020
spreading, usually ± flat when moist, elliptic, obovate, oblong-ovate, ovate, ovate-elliptic, ovate or elliptic-lanceolate, or obovate-spatulate, 1.5–6
13 KB (645 words) - 07:41, 30 July 2020
sterile; filaments heteromorphic, outer dorsiventrally flattened, linear, elliptic, spatulate, or oblanceolate, usually petaloid, sometimes not, inner filiform
20 KB (775 words) - 18:32, 29 July 2020
type, simple; petiole present; blade obovate to oblanceolate, rhombic, elliptic, or linear to lanceolate, ovate, or suborbiculate, 1–10 cm, membranous
20 KB (1,036 words) - 14:24, 30 July 2020
Ambigui 3 Cauline leaf blades obovate, ovate, oblanceolate, lanceolate, elliptic, or linear; pollen sacs navicular, saccate, subexplanate, or explanate
12 KB (581 words) - 19:05, 29 July 2020
P. picta), alternate; petiole present; blade maculate or not, elliptic, ovate-elliptic, oblongelliptic, oblanceolate, oblong-obovate, ovate, obovate,
12 KB (691 words) - 13:10, 30 July 2020
Fruits siliques or silicles, sessile, linear, oblong, cylindrical, oval-elliptic, ovoid, lanceoloid, lanceoloid-subulate, or globose, smooth or torulose
13 KB (760 words) - 12:30, 30 July 2020
sessile-glandular (young); blade light to mid green abaxially, usually elliptic to oblong or narrowly obovate, sometimes obtrullate, ovate, or suborbiculate
22 KB (1,233 words) - 13:46, 30 July 2020
in C. frugiferens); blade light to mid green, broadly ovate or rhombic-elliptic to obtrullate or obovate or ± orbiculate, 1.5–5 cm, thin to coriaceous
17 KB (1,102 words) - 13:45, 30 July 2020
simultaneously as above; distribution various > 8 8 Fruiting bracteoles ovate to elliptic or orbiculate-cordate > 9 8 Fruiting bracteoles never orbiculate-cordate
45 KB (1,022 words) - 09:34, 30 July 2020
hemiamphistomatous, or hypostomatous, lorate, narrowly oblong, narrowly elliptic, elliptic, lanceolate, narrowly ovate, or oblanceolate, 2–14.4 times as long
14 KB (582 words) - 12:06, 30 July 2020
Specialized asexual reproduction by gemmae occasional, usually spheric to elliptic, of 1–10 cells, usually borne in leaf-axils, occasionally on adaxial surface
28 KB (1,343 words) - 07:04, 30 July 2020
or smooth, in 3–4 (–5) rows adaxially, abaxial cells shortrectangular to elliptic, papillose or smooth; transverse-section of costa circular to semicircular
26 KB (1,447 words) - 07:08, 30 July 2020
blade linear, broadly lanceolate, oblanceolate, oblong-obovate, rhombic, or elliptic to cuneate or spatulate, base tapered or rounded and abruptly narrowed
25 KB (2,084 words) - 13:06, 30 July 2020
ovate, triangular-ovate, spatulate, oblanceolate, lanceolate, oblong, elliptic, or linear, rarely lyrate, margins entire or toothed. Thyrses continuous
36 KB (1,140 words) - 19:13, 29 July 2020
pseudobulb, ± globose, glabrous. Leaves 1–3 (–5), with sheathing base; blade elliptic, ovate, or lanceolate. Inflorescences terminal, racemes, spicate racemes
9 KB (493 words) - 05:30, 30 July 2020
0.9–1.4 mm wide; Maine. Carex oronensis 8 Perigynia ovate, obovate or elliptic, 1.5–3.2 mm wide; widespread. > 9 9 Principal leaves stiff, ± glaucous
57 KB (937 words) - 01:54, 30 July 2020
by flowering; proximalmost reduced, scalelike); blades (1-nerved) ovate, elliptic, oblong, lanceolate, or linear (± uniform in size), margins entire, faces
12 KB (637 words) - 21:48, 29 July 2020
short-petiolate, cauline sessile; basal blades 1-nerved, oblanceolate to elliptic or nearly linear (3–250 (–450) × 3–30 mm, bases usually attenuate), margins
15 KB (811 words) - 22:27, 29 July 2020
ocrea, when absent, blade directly articulated to ocrea; blade linear to elliptic or obovate, rarely coriaceous (in P. glaucum), smooth (papillose in P.
13 KB (1,076 words) - 10:08, 30 July 2020