generally filling the base medially, sometimes rising marginally in a V shape, occasionally bulging, usually slightly wider than the distal laminal cells;
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anastomosing. Sori borne on veins, ± lunate to linear. Indusia usually present, shape conforming to sorus and originating along 1 side of sorus. Sporangia with
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absent [present as glands]; petiolate or not; blade mostly ± uniform in shape and size, sometimes weakly to strongly dimorphic, pinnately veined, secondary
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paniculate inflorescence, without axillary shoots. Leaf blades variable in shape, base cordate to narrowly cuneate. Inner tepals with margins entire or variously
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clathrate. Petioles not articulate. Blades 1–4-pinnate, of diverse size and shape. Indusia present. x = 36. Worldwide. Species ca. 700 (28 species, 3 nothospecies
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used as a term for fruit shape. A didymous fruit is inflated and appears as two balloons pressed together. The overall fruit shape is otherwise difficult
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anthers exserted (or included); stigmas 2–5. Fruits utricles, shape variable, determined by seed shape; pericarp waxy, becoming membranous and ± separable from
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Goosefoot Etymology: Greek chen, goose, and pous, foot, in reference to the shape of the leaf Treatment appears in FNA Volume 4. Mentioned on page 261, 265
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some¬times similar to the sessile spikelets, sometimes differing in sexuality and shape, sometimes missing. x = usually 9 or 10, or possibly 5 with 9 and 10 reflecting
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Vegetative and reproductive buds vary in size, shape, and position. Three general types of bud size and shape gradation are recognized; namely, alba-type
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heterogeneous; proximal cells usually quadrate, short- or long-rectangular, shape often distinctly different, occasionally similar to medial and distal cells;
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present, usually weak, rounded in sectional shape, abaxial epidermis present; proximal cells not differentiated in shape, rectangular, little wider than distal
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nectar borne in spurs, or Latin aquila, eagle, because of similarity in shape of curved spurs of some European species to an eagle's talons Treatment appears
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occasionally narrowly channeled, 0.4–3(–6) mm; base weakly differentiated in shape to oblong and half-sheathing the stem, proximal margins occasionally decurrent;
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central, abaxial stereid band present, round to semicircular in sectional shape, abaxial epidermis present; proximal cells differentiated across leaf or
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floret(s) staminate or sterile, varying from similar to the lowest floret in shape, size, and venation to sterile and reduced to an awn column with well-developed
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cylindric spikes; bracts absent or 1–5, deciduous or persistent, of various shapes. Flowers bisexual or unisexual, uniseriate, radially or rarely bilaterally
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3(2). Pedicels usually longer than 3 mm, similar to the rame internodes in shape, length, and pubescence color, not fused to the rame axes. Pedicellate spikelets
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cells in cross-section undifferentiated or sharply distinct in size and/or shape from those beneath; transition in areolation from sheath to blade gradual
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e Etymology: Latin stella, star, and - aria, pertaining to, alluding to shape of flower Synonyms: Alsine Linnaeus Treatment appears in FNA Volume 5. Treatment
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