terete or roundly 3-angled or 6-angled or grooved. Fruits capsular, wall papery or becoming dry and hardened, sometimes indehiscent (in I. giganticaerulea)
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glabrous, from short rhizomes with persistent leaf-sheaths simulating brown, papery, tunicate bulbs. Leaves 2–8, reduced and alternate distally; blade linear
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Mature bark smooth or deeply furrowed (but see also Q. montana), not scaly or papery; cup scales flattened, never tuberculate, never embedded in tomentum; leaf
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keeled; stamens in 2 subequal series, pollen 85–100% fertile. Capsules hard or papery, straight or slightly curved, promptly dehiscent 1/2 to throughout their
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oblong or narrowly lanceolate, smooth or torulose, latiseptate; valves (papery, elastically dehiscent, becoming spirally or circinately coiled) each not
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the back, veins not pronounced, margins involute; anthers 3; lodicules 2, papery; styles with 2 branches, purple, plumose. Caryopses not longitudinally grooved;
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hooked (rarely none hooked), acicular or subulate, or both (ribbonlike and papery in S. papyracanthus), longest spines 7–15 mm. Flowers diurnal, borne at
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glabrate or sparsely to densely hairy, bristles absent > 40 40 Bark usually papery in age, peeling (especially towards base); inflorescences 1–2-flowered;
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terete, 4-angled, or 8-ribbed; (segments each falsely 1-loculed, septum papery, appressed to one side, usually 1-seeded; proximal segment remaining attached
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persistent, longer internodes 5–10 (–20) mm, scales sometimes fugaceous, 5–7 mm, papery (to membranous), sometimes fibrous. Culms terete, often with to 12 blunt
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perennial; cespitose. Culms soft, somewhat compressed. Ligules membranous, papery, often erose, with or without cilia. Panicles open to contracted, with many
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somewhat woody, white to beige or blue (then drying blackish), cortex corky or papery, loose exfoliating. Leaves: petiole short or absent. Inflorescences terminal
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bracts to 30 cm, secondary bracts to 20 cm; floral bracts 0.5–3 × 0.3–1.5 cm, papery. Flowers nearly sessile, subtended by pedicel bract; sepals usually green
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surpassing inner). Receptacles flat to convex, paleate (paleae conduplicate, papery). Ray-florets (8–) 10–18 (–21), pistillate, fertile; corollas yellow. Disc-florets
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Herbs, perennial, from tunicate, ovoid bulbs; tunic brown, dry, brittle, papery. Stems simple or branched. Leaves few; blade pleated, lanceolate to ± linear
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poisonous, from ovoid, tunicate bulbs; bulb tunics white to pale-brown, papery. Leaves few to several, basal; blade linear to lanceolate, margins smooth
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elliptic and flat structures or flask-shaped nectariferous cavities; blade papery to leathery, venation pinnate, secondary-veins often forming loops or smoothly
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3–8 mm, with 15 or more prominent to obscure, close, longitudinal veins, papery to cartilaginous. Styles 3-fid, or 3-fid and 2-fid. Achenes biconvex, sometimes
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umbellate or racemose, usually dense, 2–20-flowered, bracteate; bracts 2–4, ± papery, not enclosing flower buds. Flowers: perianth 6-tepaled, distinctly connate
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marbles woollyheads Etymology: Greek psilos, slender, and karphos, chaff, alluding to papery paleae of heads Treatment appears in FNA Volume 19. Treatment on page 456
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