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  • zygomorphic (in Oenothera), (3 or) 4-merous; stamens 2 times as many, or rarely as many, as sepals; pollen usually shed in monads, rarely tetrads (Chylismia
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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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  • 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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  • tubercles or in the axils of leaves. The areoles are woolly cushions with few to many spines (modified leaves of the shoot); spines are absent in some taxa
    40 KB (1,967 words) - 15:27, 15 December 2020
  • arrangement met many of the criticisms of Kükenthal’s arrangement, but it cannot be applied to the genus on a worldwide basis because few species of subg
    80 KB (3,349 words) - 15:29, 15 December 2020
  • dehiscence, cordate to linear; ovary superior to inferior, (2–) 3 (–4) -locular, often with septal nectaries, ovules usually several or many per locule; styles
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  • or the base of the rame axis may be naked. Individual plants may bear few to many rames, and the rames themselves may be aggregated in a wide array of primary
    31 KB (2,561 words) - 04:21, 30 July 2020
  • midvein, awns usually 1 (-3), arising basally to terminally; paleas usually with 2 major veins, with 0 to many additional veins between the major veins, sometimes
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  • base of carpels; stamens as many as sepals or 2 times as many and in 2 series, antipetalous if in 1 series, free or adnate to corolla base (or tube); anthers
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  • (saucer to cup or bowl to goblet-shaped), without indication of valves, covering base of nut (rarely whole nut), scaly, scales imbricate or reduced to tubercles
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  • much more prudent to recognize varieties—entities that may be expected to freely intergrade—rather than species. Many problems remain to be worked out in
    60 KB (2,205 words) - 13:43, 10 February 2021
  • which are diagnostic for many taxa. Because these characters are difficult to assess once dried, herbarium material can be difficult to identify. Bract and
    79 KB (2,746 words) - 18:50, 29 July 2020
  • 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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  • complanate-foliate, unbranched or irregularly 2- to occasionally multifid when sterile; rhizoids few-to-many, pigmented, smooth to papillose, often bearing multicellular
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  • unbranched to sparsely branched by subfloral innovations, stolons absent (present in Rhodobryum); rhizoids few-to-many, color various, smooth to papillose
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  • margins entire. Inflorescences axillary to leaf-scars on old wood or to leaves on new shoots, solitary flowers or few-flowered fascicles, pedunculate; bracts
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  • arcuate [declinate]; filaments distinct or partly to completely connate, sometimes weak, unable to support anthers; anthers with 2 pollen-sacs, extrorse
    15 KB (556 words) - 06:04, 30 July 2020
  • including a few North American taxa, have different chromosome numbers, with discrepancies and uncertainties as to the base number for many groups. Even
    16 KB (1,157 words) - 21:03, 7 June 2022
  • adnate to hypanthium, styles 1–5, lateral, distinct, adnate most of length, exsert; ovules 2, superposed. Fruits pomes, yellow to red or purplish to black
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  • from bases to apices or appendages, apices rounded to ± truncate or with deltate to lanceolate or penicillate, abaxially and adaxially papillate to hispidulous
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  • market belong to a small number of species and their hybrids in only a few genera; the majority of orchids are not commonly cultivated. Few orchids are economically
    41 KB (2,210 words) - 05:19, 30 July 2020
  • innovations; rhizoids few-to-many, micronemata and macronemata present. Leaves weakly to strongly contorted or shrunken when dry, erect to erect-spreading when
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  • monochasiate or ± umbellate, 1–many-flowered, bracteate. Flowers: perianth globose to broadly campanulate; sepals 3, distinct, ovate to lanceolate, usually petaloid
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  • cordate to orbiculate, oblong, lanceolate, or oblanceolate, lobed or unlobed, margins entire or toothed. Inflorescences axillary and/or terminal, 1-many-flowered
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  • flora). Most Ranunculus species are poisonous to stock; when abundant, they may be troublesome to ranchers. A few species with acrid juice were formerly used
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  • especially in western North America. In addition to reproduction by seeds, many species of subgenus Ceanothus respond to fire by developing sprouts from the root
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  • striolate on the outer basal exostome. Many Calliergonaceae species become translucent red when growing in habitats exposed to sunlight; this is never the case
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  • who was described as covered with foam perhaps allud-ing to the viscid secretion covering many species Synonyms: Anotites Greene Atocion Adanson Coronaria Guettard
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  • one or more layers; apex rounded-obtuse to more commonly narrowly acute; costa ending a few cells before the apex to short-excurrent or long-excurrent as
    28 KB (882 words) - 07:00, 30 July 2020
  • (occasionally many-ranked); base equitant, sheathing or open, sometimes with ligule or auricles at junction; blade mostly linear or filiform, flat to variously
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  • families. Ophioglossaceae may be only distantly related to the ferns and more closely related to Marattiales and certain seedplants, especially Cycadales
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  • number of sequenced species currently is too few, and the taxonomic and nomenclatural problems too numerous, to produce a robust phylogenetic classification
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  • understood in the family, and many species are estimated to have fairly high numbers. Chromosomes are small and in meiosis often tend to clump. Reported chromosome
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  • papillar stigmatic surfaces. Capsules dehiscent, 2-valved. Seeds few-many, reniform to subglobose, elaiosome usually present. x = 8. Temperate North America
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  • Plants minute to medium-sized, gregarious to forming open tufts, light to yellow-green, annual to biennial. Stems short, erect, simple or with a few branches
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  • sometimes appearing terminal due to congestion of leaves on very short stems), cymose or cymulose, not appearing secund, few to many-flowered, or flowers solitary
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  • appears in FNA Volume 2. Stems long-creeping to ascending to erect, 1.5–12 mm or more diam. Blades 1-pinnate to pinnate-pinnatifid, rarely 2-pinnate, proximal
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  • rhizoids tan to reddish, basal and axillary, usually smooth, infrequently papillose; axillary hairs 1-seriate, filiform. Leaves in few to numerous pairs
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  • Achenes flattened; beak variable in length, plumose to nearly glabrous. Temperate, mostly North America, a few in Eurasia Species ca. 25 (18 in the flora). Clematis
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  • nodding [erect]. Flowers: sepals 2 (-3), distinct; petals 4 (-6); stamens many; pistil 3-18 [-22] -carpellate; ovary 1-locular, sometimes incompletely multilocular
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  • medium-sized to large, in loose mats. Stems creeping, sympodial, stoloniferous; secondary stems ascending, irregularly branched, branches few-to-many, curved
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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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  • forming mats, erect, usually many branched. Stem segments firmly attached to easily dislodged, straight to curved, cylindric to slightly clavate, 2–40 (–50)
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  • conspicuous; axillary hairs 2 to many per axil, proximal cells short and colored, or undifferentiated. Leaves often slightly to strongly dimorphic, mostly
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  • spikes. Flowers few-to-many, usually resupinate (not resupinate in P. nivea), sometimes showy; petals entire to fringed or emarginate; lip lobed, 3-partite
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  • loculicidal capsules [rarely indehiscent or berries]. Seeds 1–several [rarely many] per locule; hilum dotlike or linear; lidlike embryotega covering embryo
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  • only distally; paraphyllia absent or present, few-to-many, simple or branched; pseudoparaphyllia filamentous to foliose; rhizoids present only on primary-stem
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  • partially to completely connate, sometimes basally adnate to petals, with basal nectariferous tissue often in form of spur; anthers connivent, adhering to stigma
    10 KB (421 words) - 08:24, 30 July 2020
  • connate [distinct], imbricate or valvate; petals absent; stamens usually as many as calyx lobes, hypogynous, opposite calyx lobes, erect in bud; filaments
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  • urban, many of the endemics are more or less threatened: M. W. Skinner and B. M. Pavlik (1994) listed 27 species and subspecies of Dudleya as to some degree
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