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Corolla urceolate; filaments dilated basally into a concave scale, scales arched over ovary.

segments spreading, subequal, sometimes basally connate into a tube.

filaments flattened, basally connate into a membranous tube.

segments basally connate into a tube, inner ones slightly smaller than outer.

Stem erect, simple, basally with a few brown, scale like sheaths.

Roots often fleshy, narrowly fusiform, basally with a whorl of caducous or persistent scalelike leaves.

The broad feather fringes are concealing much of the black on the greater coverts and underwing coverts (which are black basally).

Perennial herbs, unarmed or prickly; inflorescences developing from mixed buds also producing leaves, basally without persistent bracts.

Style not basally widened, terete, with a clear line of demarcation between ovary and style.

Stems solitary or sparsely caespitose, ascending, basally usually lignified, simple or sometimes branched.

Filaments of anterior stamens basally with a clavate appendage.

Leaf blade obovate-oblong to broadly oblanceolate, apex acute to shortly acuminate; hypogynous glands basally connate.

Stems several, base short branched with basally persistent withered leaves, frequently forming a dense cluster.

Stems subject or prostrate basally and rooting from lower nodes then ascending, many branched, channeled, glabrous.

Leaves alternate or sometimes opposite basally, ovate to linear-lanceolate, margin crenate and double dentate.

The petals are often described as connate basally; they are actually connate only in the middle part, but free at both ends.

Stems single or sometimes several together, erect, straw colored, tinted with purple to dark purple, glabrous basally.

Flowering stems and petioles white villous, hairs basally enlarged; plants without leaf rosettes at anthesis.

Branchlets brownish to brownish red, villous, with intermixed stalked purple glands and sparse, basally broadened and flattened prickles.

Herbs, annual or perennial, basally woody, erect or decumbent, much branched, hairy, rooting from lower nodes.

Styles connate basally; fruit usually apple-shaped, without or with few grit cells; inflorescence a fascicle.

Leaves alternate, terete or undeveloped, fleshy, basally decurrent.

Rhizomes less than 1 cm. Stems erect, simple, rarely basally branched, pubescent with multicellular hairs along 2 lines.

Trunk basally buttressed, often with a cone of stilt roots at base.

Fruiting bracts ovate-lanceolate to subcordate, scarcely furfuraceous, margins united only basally.

Leaflets basally usually cuneate, glabrous on both surfaces; petiole terete.

Outer sepals lanceolate to broadly lanceolate basally, long and gradually attenuate apically, appressed hairy.

Leaves alternate, sheathed and clasping, broad to narrow, strongly plicately veined, basally usually narrowed.

Stems erect, sometimes dark violet basally, robust, simple or sparsely branched.

blade reflexed, linear-lanceolate or linear, basally slightly hairy adaxially, margins serrulate.

Stipules linear, basally strongly gland-tipped fimbriate.

Culms taller. Culm sheaths basally glabrous. Leaf blade completely green.

Styles basally glabrous, pome obovoid or pyriform, white punctate; leaf blade abaxially densely tomentose.

laminar glands basally lines, toward apex dots, margin entire, apex acute or acuminate.

Male flowers: clustered basally on inflorescence, ca. 3 mm in diam. , pedicellate, subtended by rudimentary bracts.

Follicles sometimes fewer than sepals, free or basally connate, erect or spreading, membranous or leathery, 1- to many seeded.

Stems erect, basally branched, glabrous, large jointed.

branches long, erect or inclined, basally with membranous scales.

Stems numerous, prostrate-ascending, unbranched, slender, 15-30 cm, basally woody, terete, densely glandular puberulent, purple-red.

Plants rather slender, to 1 m tall, basally with brown, reticulate fibers formed from disintegrated sheaths.

Stems prostrate or rarely suberect, branched basally and above.

outside glabrescent, margin ciliolate. Petals pale pink, broadly obovate, ca. 1. 5 cm, outside basally yellowish velutinous, apex rounded.

Annuals. Stems creeping and rooting at nodes at least basally, branched, 12-20 cm, internodes 3-6 cm, succulent.

26 (25) Leaves basally deeply cordate, basal sinuses attaching or partly overlapping, margin coarsely toothed (cultivated).

lobes basally truncate, margin entire, apex acute or caudate-acute.

Leaf basally rounded, truncate, or broadly cuneate; fruit subglobose, orangish red.

pericarp membranous, more fleshy basally, free from seed.

Drupes globose, dehiscent or indehiscent, sometimes loosely covered by slightly enlarged persistent calyx, often basally fleshy on one side.

Stem erect, basally pink, slender, simple, with few fibrous roots.

ovules basally attached to placenta. Capsule ovoid to oblong.

Plants stout, to 1 m tall, basally with black, reticulate fibers formed from disintegrated sheaths.

Leaves basal or nearly so, 2-ranked, basally equitant, sword-shaped, laterally flattened.

Stems arching and rooting apically, basally terete, angular in middle and apically, glabrous, rarely sparsely hairy on angles.

Female flowers: yellowish, basally on spadicles and main axis of inflorescence.

Leaf blade broadest basally from middle, base rounded.

Stem erect, stout, basally long naked, laxly branched.

Flowering shoots erect, rarely ascending, unbranched or basally branched, leafless or with 1 or 2 small opposite or alternate leaves.

Plants to 1 m tall, basally with brown, reticulate fibers formed from disintegrated sheaths.

Plants to 1 m tall, basally with dense, non-reticulate fibers formed from disintegrated sheaths.

Leaf blade basally cordate; branchlets with persistent bracts.

Drupes globose, ca. 1 cm in diam. , enclosed by enlarged calyx lobes, basally attenuate and fleshy.

Leaves apically rounded-obtuse, rarely acute, abaxially grayish white when dry; drupe basally with cup-shaped remnants of disk.

Style nearly as long as stamens, basally sparsely villous.

Petals as many as calyx lobes, valvate, linear to lorate , sometimes basally coherent.

Herbs annual or biennial, 30-150 cm tall, glabrous or basally sparsely hirsute, often glaucous, with or without fleshy taproots.

lobes basally connate, oblong-lanceolate, veins 3, apex reflexed and acute.

Plants rather slender, 30--40 cm tall, basally with brown, reticulate fibers formed from disintegrated sheaths.

filaments basally connate, forming a short column.

Filaments thickened proximally, filiform apically, 5--10 mm, often wholly smooth, sometimes basally slightly verruculose.

Petals 3-5, short, concave, quincuncial or imbricate in bud, distinct or rarely basally connate and adnate to staminal tube.

Corolla campanulate, 5-lobed to middle or more basally, caducous.

8 (7) Stipules usually basally connate, enclosing bud, leaving a single transverse scar that completely encircles stem at each node.

Stem ca. 90 cm tall, shortly branched, basally sparsely spreading pubescent, apically glabrous.

Leaf margin serrate apically, entire basally, abaxially pubescent only along midvein when young; peduncle and pedicels glabrous.

bracts linear-lanceolate, margin often entire but basally sometimes with 1 or 2 short to rarely long teeth, apex obtuse.

Sepals 5, imbricate, persistent, basally connate. Petals 5, white or yellowish white, imbricate, basally slightly connate.

Stem more than 50 cm, simple or branched, basally glabrous, apically spreading pubescent.

Flowers bisexual. Sepals 4, distinct or basally connate.

connective basally extended adaxially into an inconspicuous spur bearing 2 long setae.

Stem 35--65 cm tall, simple, retrorse and spreading yellow hispid, basally with longer spreading hairs.

Herbs annual or biennial, 30-120(-190) cm tall, glabrous or sparsely pubescent basally, rarely glaucous, sometimes with fleshy taproots.

Stems sparsely caespitose, ascending, 25--50 cm, branched, basally sparsely villous, apically sparsely hairy.

Petals 5, white, imbricate in bud, basally slightly connate.

Petals 5, white or yellowish, basally slightly connate.

Stems erect or ascending, quadrangular, 40--60 cm tall, basally branched, densely woolly.

Calyx lobe margin narrowly membranous; leaf blade toothed to lobed, rarely basally 1- or 2-segmented.

Bracts 1--3 per inflorescence, margin basally adnate to main axis, apex with leaflike extension.

Leaf blade abaxially yellowish gray pubescent, margin basally entire and apically shallowly serrate.

leaf blade cordate-ovate, veins 7-9, basally palmate, margin sparsely serrulate.

Stems 1 to several, erect, branched basally or unbranched, pubescent, with 4 lines of hairs.

Stems yellow, 10--40 cm, slender, shiny, with long filiform hairs, basally glabrous.

Racemes 30-80(-100)-flowered, bracteate basally to almost throughout, elongated considerably in fruit.

Stems 3--15 cm tall, usually branched near base, basally and lower stem with sheath like scales.

ovules 2 per locule, basally attached, erect.

bracts leaflike basally, ovate apically, ca. 5 mm. Pedicel ca. 3 mm, purplish, densely glandular puberulent.

filaments basally connate, forming a column ca. 2 mm.

Petals white, suborbicular, ca. 2. 5 cm, outside basally sericeous.

secondary veins 7-10 on each side of midvein, basally straight, curved upward and anastomosing before margin.

Calyx campanulate or cup-shaped, 5-lobed, often 10-ribbed basally and plicate in bud.

Petals 5, much smaller than sepals, basally tubulose or shallowly scrotiform and shortly clawed.

Leaf basally cuneate; fruit sanguine, ca. 1 cm in diam.

Tepals basally pale yellowish green and apically dark purplish red, lanceolate to oblanceolate, ca. 1. 5 mm.

Styles 3 or 4, equalling or lower than stamens, densely pubescent basally.

ovules 1 or 2(or more), pendulous, laterally or basally, rarely subapically attached.

Trees, 5-10 m tall, stems often basally many branched, epiphytic when young.

Petals white but soon turning brown, 3-4 mm, 2-lobed, outer margins usually basally fringed with white hairs.

Plants to 1--1. 5 m tall, basally with several brownish or whitish, membranous sheaths which usually become reticulate fibers apically.

Flowers actinomorphic; petals 5, basally long clawed, with 2 ear like scales at base adaxially.

Carpels (3-)5(-15), seemingly free but basally connate, each with one ovule.

Seeds ellipsoid, 3-4 mm in diam. , black-brown, basally covered by aril.

Sepals (4 or)5, free or sometimes basally connate, valvate.

Seeds ellipsoid, 3-4 mm in diam. , basally covered by white aril.

Leaf blade basally cuneate or obtuse, lateral veins 7 or 8 per side.

styles 2 or 3, free or basally connate, simple, usually long.

Styles 5, ca. as long as stamens, pubescent or lanose basally.

styles 5, distinct, ca. 5 mm, basally velutinous.

Stems (2--)10--20(--35) cm, basally glabrous or rarely sparsely puberulent, sparsely puberulent above.

Style ca. 1. 3 cm, densely villous basally, densely pubescent apically.

Stem arching, mottled with lilac basally, 20--30 cm.

leaf blade pinnately veined, basally 3(or 5)-veined, margin entire or serrate.

Herbs annual, 30--50(--70) cm tall, slightly woody basally, not drying black.

filaments basally connate, forming a short column ca. 0. 2 mm.

Seeds oblong, 5-7 mm, basally covered by white aril.

style ca. 1 cm, glabrous or basally pubescent, apically 3-lobed.

Stem leaves crowded. Sepals sublinear-lanceolate, subequal, 5. 5-6 mm, shorter than petals. Carpels basally connate for ca. 0. 5 mm.

Leaves basal or on short stem, usually distichous equitant, sometimes spaced, basally distinctly petiolate or not;

flowering pedicel ascending or erect, glabrous or glandular pubescent, basally with a setaceous bracteole;

Filaments connate basally into a ring, fused with corolla, free parts very short;

ovary superior, ovoid to oblique, basally thick and fleshy, enclosed by persistent calyx lobes or not;

Bulbs truncate basally, sometimes elongate and tapering apically, covered with a tunic;

Petiole narrowly winged basally or proximally, with a subapical abscission zone;

Stem erect or basally ascending, green, striate, succulent, branched, basal nodes with many fibrous roots. Leaves alternate;

calyx tubular, basally thin walled, apically thick walled and either completely fused or not;

Filaments connate basally into a ca. 1 mm high ring, free parts very short;

filaments filiform, usually flat, fleshy, basally slightly dilated;

Leaves opposite; petiole broadening basally forming a papery sheath clasping stem;

Female flowers: sessile; calyx peltate, fleshy, free or basally connate, apex thick;

Sepals pale yellow basally with purple stripes or sometimes purple throughout;

Filaments connate basally into a ca. 0. 5 mm high ring, free parts very short;

Stem erect in upper part, prostrate basally, slender, glabrous;

Leaves basally narrowed to a rather long or basally clasping petiole;

Culm sheaths green or yellow-brown, basally suboblong, leathery, sparsely setose, apex broad;

Filaments connate basally into a ca. 1 mm high ring, free parts ca. 2 mm;

Herbs perennial. Stems diffuse, 3--6 cm, basally glabrous, with withered leaves, distally slightly villous, with congested leaves;

filaments linear or somewhat broader basally;

Filaments connate basally into a ring, free parts ca. 0. 5 mm;

Filaments connate basally into a ring, free parts 2--4 mm;

Corolla blue-purple, pink, or violet, rarely white, slender basally, dilated at throat, 2-lipped;

Stem erect or laxly branched, soft, slender or stout basally;

Glumes absent to 2, gradually transformed into lemmas, mucronate, basally and apically usually sterile;

Female flowers: calyx lobes 4, ovate, pubescent, basally adnate with ovary;

Filaments 3--4 mm, connate basally into a ring;

Filaments connate basally into a ca. 2 mm high tube, free parts 3--5 mm;

Female inflorescence borne in axil of scale like, membranous bract, of 1 umbel, basally not prophyllate;

Filaments connate basally into a ca. 0. 5 mm high ring, fused with corolla, free parts ca. 0. 7 mm;

filaments of median pairs flattened basally, unappendaged or laterally 1-toothed;

Filaments connate basally into a ca. 1. 5 mm high ring, free parts 2--3 mm, densely glandular;

Inflorescence borne in axil of leaf or scalelike bract on young branches, of 1 umbel, basally not prophyllate;

Stamens 5, hypogynous, basally connate;

Stem sometimes branched basally, 3-7 mm thick, branches ascending. Leaves alternate;

Leaves solitary on rhizome (petiole basally sheathing) and 2 or 3 at base of reproductive shoots (petiole basally slightly dilated);

Male inflorescence borne in axil of leaf or scalelike bract, of 1 umbel, basally not prophyllate;

perianth segments (in fruit) patent, linear-elliptic or obovate, 0. 7-1 mm, basally connate, margin entire or slightly lacerate;

petals ovate-oblong, ca. 3 mm, basally slightly connate;

Inflorescence borne in axil of proximal leaf, of 1 umbel, basally not prophyllate;

Ovary connected with disk basally, 4-locular;

Filaments connate basally into a ca. 0. 5 mm high ring, free parts ca. 0. 6 mm;

Inflorescence in axil of bract, of 1 umbel, basally not prophyllate;

Inflorescence borne in axil of rather young leaf on new branchlets, of 1 umbel, basally not prophyllate;

Corolla red; tube slightly decurved basally, 7--9 mm, slightly expanded apically;

Petioles of basal leaves (0. 5-)1. 5-3(-6) cm, ciliate, thickened and subcorky, persistent, often ciliate at least basally;

Culms to 9 m, ca. 5 cm in diam. , basally slightly flexuous, apically slightly drooping;

Male inflorescences 3-6 cm, pubescent, basally dense, apically lax;

wings 7--12(--25) mm wide, basally deeply clasping node, tapering toward apex;

petiole decreasing in length from 1. 5-6 cm basally to sessile toward shoot apices;

corolla rotate, ca. 7 mm in diam. , petals ovate-oblong, 2. 5-3 mm, basally slightly connate;

Culms ca. 8 m, to 3. 8 cm in diam. , basally slightly flexuous, apically drooping;

Ovary semisuperior, basally 3-loculed, apically 1-loculed;