Leaves: distal leaf-sheaths persistent, rarely disintegrating, membranous to papery. Spikelets to 40 × 7 mm; floral scales 5–500+ per spikelet. Flowers: anthers
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purple, red, brown, or white (sometimes sessile, persistent, and becoming papery, e.g., in Heliopsis, Sanvitalia, and Zinnia). Disc-florets 4–200+, bisexual
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disintegrating, papery to membranous, apex subtruncate to sometimes acute, tooth sometimes present. Spikelets: floral scales membranous to thinly papery; proximal
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perianth parts, pericarp (ovary wall) adherent or nonadherent, chartaceous or papery, sometimes reticulate, mottled or smooth. Ovules usually 1, campylotropous
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spikelets with scales papery, seldom membranous; distal leaf sheaths persistent; spikelets not proliferating, with scales papery to cartilaginous, seldom
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persistent or disintegrating, closely sheathing, thinly membranous to sometimes papery, apex usually acute to acuminate. Spikelets terete or laterally compressed
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decussate, simple; without true stipules; usually petiolate; blade leathery, papery, or submembranous, margins entire, sometimes somewhat sinuate. Inflorescences
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rigid (not papery), ± shiny in fruit, strongly involute at tip, carinate. Allium campanulatum 58 Leaves usually green at anthesis; tepals papery (not rigid
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needlelike or nail-like, terete to angled or flat, mostly hard (rarely corky or papery). Flowers bisexual (rarely unisexual or with bisexual and pistillate flowers
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mm. Leaves: distal leaf-sheaths usually persistent, thinly membranous to papery. Spikelets terete, to 13 × 4 mm. Flowers: styles 2-fid or with to ca. 1/2
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distinct, ± ovate, forming weakly to strongly accrescent, herbaceous to papery involucre. Flowers bisexual, chasmogamous and/or cleistogamous; cleistogamous
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composed of 2–10 sets of overlapping, opposite or whorled, membranous or papery to fleshy bracts, proximal bracts empty, most distal bracts subtending 1
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rhizomes. Culms often compressed. Sheaths often keeled; ligules membranous, papery, often erose, usually ciliate; blades with vascular-bundles surrounded by
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or hirsute [corky or scaly]; mesocarp fleshy or dry and fibrous; endocarp papery, leathery, or bony, sometimes with 3 germination pores. Seeds 1 (–2+), free
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quadrangular, sometimes shallowly 4-lobed. Capsules woody and hard to thin and ± papery, straight, cylindrical to obtusely 4-angled, often tapering at each end
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5–10, distinct, forming involucre, lanceolate to broadly ovate, thinly papery or scarious, translucent, occasionally thin and green. Flowers bisexual
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chaffy, boatshaped, chaffy, inner one membranous, capping corolla; keel papery, or scarious, variously winged, variously margined; petals 3, distinct [to
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in 4 ranks (2 median, 2 lateral), linear-lanceolate to ovate, thin and papery to thick and stiff, margins entire, dentate, or ciliate; stomates arranged
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or solitary, spathaceous; spathe 1-valved, enclosing buds, membranous or papery. Flowers pedicellate or sessile, erect or declinate, often fragrant; tepals
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spatulate, or ovate, 0.4–4.5 mm, margins translucent to white, scarious or papery, apex defined by a usually prominent adaxial hood, ascending to slightly
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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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proximal and distal portions, acicular or somewhat flattened, to almost papery, minutely canescent; longest spines 9–25 (–45) × 0.4–0.8 mm; radial spines
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or obovoid, terete, flattened, latiseptate, or angustiseptate; valves (papery or leathery), not veined, glabrous or pubescent, (trichomes branched and/or
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torulose, terete or slightly latiseptate; valves (3–6 in R. barbareifolia) papery or leathery, each obscurely veined, glabrous or pubescent; replum (visible)
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margins and dark centers, 2–5 mm. Equisetum palustre 5 Sheath teeth reddish, papery, coherent into 3–4 large groups. Equisetum sylvaticum 5 Sheath teeth black
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smaller, blade ending in basally lobed pinna ± similar to lateral pinnae, papery or somewhat leathery. Pinnae not articulate to rachis, segment margins crenate
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dimorphic and blade tissue lacking on fertile leaves. Blade 1–3-pinnate, papery to leathery. Veins free [anastomosing]. x = 38. Tropical and subtropical
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into tube; stamens 3 or 6; style slender; pedicel not articulate. Capsules papery to woody. x = 7. Introduced; primarily s and tropical Africa, also Madagascar
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3–5-lobed, clavate [capitate]. Fruits capsules, erect, not inflated, ovoid, papery, glabrous or hairy. Seeds 2–5 per locule, hairy. x = 10. sc, se United States
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unequally valvate, abaxial carpel 1.5–2 times longer than adaxial carpel, (papery, each wing 5–10-veined). Seeds black, shiny, ellipsoid or ovoid, (base truncate)
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fertile; corollas yellow to orange (laminae persistent, sessile, becoming papery). Disc-florets 30–150+, bisexual, fertile; corollas yellow or brown to purple
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