involucral

involucral bracts triangular-ovate, densely covered with long pubescence, persistent.

Leaf blade glabrous or with sparse short pubescence. Figs oblong to pillow-shaped, glabrous; involucral bracts orbicular. Fl. early summer.

involucral bracts broadly ovate, densely covered with golden yellow thick hairs.

involucral bract leaflike; heads many, hemispheric, many flowered.

involucral bracts cup like. Male, gall, and female flowers within same fig.

This species varies much in the color of involucral leaves from yellowish red to red.

pedicels 5--8 mm in fruit, with sheath like, membranous involucral bracts, forming reduced inflorescence shoots.

Branchlets coarsely hairy, glabrescent; petiole ca. 1 cm; involucral bracts broadly ovate.

involucral bracts free, small.

involucral bracts orbicular to reniform, ca. 2 mm, margin ciliate.

involucral bracts triangular, ca. 3 mm, adaxially with scattered bristles.

Involucral bract blade undivided, linear-lanceolate, 1--3 cm, villous, apex obtuse or acute.

cyathophylls 2, similar to primary involucral leaves, but smaller.

involucral bracts triangular-ovate; apical bracts in 4 or 5 rows, broadly triangular-ovate, imbricate, rosulate.

involucral bracts 4, outer 2 sessile, narrowly deltoid-ovate, inner 2 long petiolate, spatulate, thin.

involucral bracts caducous or persistent, ovate-lanceolate, 1. 5-3 mm, with bent hairs, apex acute.

Inflorescences capitate cymes, 3-7-flowered, subtended by a whorl of 5 or 6 prominent involucral bracts.

Involucral bract blade undivided or 3-lobed, obovate, 1--3 cm, margin dentate or rarely entire.

Involucral bract blade 3-parted, obovate-rhombic, 1--3 cm, puberulent.

involucral bracts re-flexed, straw-colored, ovate to obovate, 1. 5--2 mm in diam.

involucral bracts 1. 6--2 cm, palmately divided into linear lobes, thickly pilose.

Inflorescence a terminal spike, with large, white, leafy involucral bracts at base or not;

peduncle with an infertile, membranous involucral bract above middle;

Inflorescences terminal, or pseudo lateral when basal involucral bract seemingly a continuation of stem, usually many flowered;

involucral bracts triangular, densely covered with yellow stiff hairs;

proximal involucral bracts leaflike but smaller than leaves, distal ones very small, less than 10 mm;

Inflorescence a dense spike or raceme, sometimes resembling a single flower when large involucral petaloid bracts are present at base;

proximal involucral bracts leaflike but smaller than leaves, distal ones less than 10 mm;

involucral bract leaflike, often shorter than inflorescence;

Inflorescence surrounded by involucral bracts;

involucral bracts sometimes sheath like, one side extending to middle of peduncle;

primary involucral leaves similar to normal leaves, primary rays ca. 3, robust and ascending, dichotomous;

inner involucral bracts recurved at flowering;

Flowers several, in fascicles in axils of involucral bracts;

Inflorescence axillary, long peduncled, capitate, bisexual, enclosed between 2 subopposite, often showy, involucral bracts;

involucral bracts oblong, apex rounded;

basal 1 or 2 involucral bracts leaflike, nearly as large as leaves, others small, less than 1 cm;

primary involucral leaves 2-4, similar to and slightly smaller than normal leaves;

primary involucral leaves 2 or 3, similar to normal leaves but larger and persistent;

2 (1) Inflorescence a raceme, without involucral petal-like bracts;

Involucral bract blade unequally 3-lobed, elliptic-ovate to oblong-ovate, ca. 1 cm;

basal involucral bract leaflike, 1--3 cm. Flower solitary;

primary involucral leaves 3 or 4, similar to normal leaves;

involucral bracts 4, dark purple, outer 2 ovate-lanceolate, inner 2 broadly ovate;

involucral bracts navicular, tapered at both ends, 2. 7-5. 5 cm, outside densely pubescent, inside long hirtellous;

involucral bracts ovate-triangular, ca. 1. 5 mm wide;

spathelike involucral bracts 1 to several, ca. 2. 5 cm, apex shortly falcate-acuminate;

involucral bracts reflexed, straw-colored, obovate to oblong, 1. 3--1. 5 mm, glabrous;

outer involucral bracts oblong to linear-oblong, 2-2. 5 cm;

involucral bracts straw-colored, obovate, 2. 2--2. 4 mm in diam. , rigid, abaxially white clavate hairy;