mucronate

Herbs annual; anthers with a slender, mucronate appendage at apex; leaves spinose at apex.

bracts circular to rhombic-ovate, oblanceolate, apex caudate-mucronate, shorter to slightly longer than flowers, bright colored.

Upper glume clearly mucronate, shorter than spikelet; spikelets planoconvex, acuminate; back of upper lemma lying against rachis.

filament filiform; anther ellipsoid or cylindric, apex mucronate or apiculate, connective narrow.

Leaves elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, apex acuminate and mucronate, adaxial surface glabrous.

Capsule chestnut brown, shiny, trigonous ovoid, longer than perianth, apex mucronate.

Plants without stolons. Petals ovate-lanceolate, apex mucronate, slightly incurved, but not notched and without incurved lobule.

anthers ovoid, apex with a mucronate appendage.

Petals ovate-lanceolate, apex mucronate, slightly incurved.

base attenuate, margin winged, apex retuse, mucronate, wing with transverse veins.

Capsule subglobose to broadly ellipsoid, apex not mucronate; inflorescences corymbose, flowers lax.

appendage cartilaginous, apex acute and shortly mucronate.

follicles long ellipsoid, obovoid or ovoid, apex obtuse or abruptly mucronate.

Leaves alternate, terete or semiterete, fleshy, apex obtuse or easily deciduous spinose mucronate.

bracts loosely overlapping, sub circular, ca. 3 mm, bright colored, softly dense ciliate, apex mucronate.

bracts ca. 10, broadly ovate, shorter than or ca. same size as calyx, mucronate, imbricate, closely contacting calyx.

Petals reddish, narrowly ovate or elliptic, subequaling sepals, apex mucronate.

Petals linear-oblanceolate, ca. as long as sepals but broader, apex mucronate.

anterior teeth shorter, wider, apex obtuse to mucronate.

ultimate segments ca. 5 mm, margins triangular-toothed or lobed, apex acute, mucronate.

anther locules 2, equal, distinct, parallel, mucronate.

mucronate feathers; a mucronate leaf.

Leaves usually 3-foliolate, occasionally palmately 5-foliolate; leaflets elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, apex mucronate.

Capsule blackish brown at maturity, trigonous ovoid, ca. 2 mm, apex mucronate.

filament filiform; anther narrowly oblong, ca. 2 mm, apex mucronate.

anther oblong, apex obtuse or mucronate.

upper lemma linear, entire or slightly 2-lobed, mucronate or very shortly awned.

lobes lanceolate, ca. 5 cm, central one spatulate, apex mucronate.

filament filiform; anther oblong, ca. 2 mm, apex mucronate.

anther locules 2, distinct, base mucronate.

pedicel short; perianth lobe 1, boat-shaped, elliptic, ca. 2 mm, mucronate.

filament filiform; anther yellow, linear, 3--4 mm, apex mucronate.

Filaments glabrous. Capsule ovoid, 8--10 mm, mucronate.

anther oblong, ca. 2 mm, apex obtuse or mucronate.

anther yellow-white, ca. 1 mm, apex mucronate.

Capsule black-brown to brown, shiny, trigonous oblong to trigonous ellipsoid, 2. 6--3 mm, apex mucronate.

Leaflet apex emarginate to obcordate, not mucronate and apiculate; outer 3 sepals of male flowers ca. 1. 4 cm.

Capsule trigonous subglobose, subequaling inner perianth segments, ca. 1. 9 mm in diam. , apex obtuse and very shortly mucronate.

segments (3-)5-9, elliptic or oblong, tapered at both ends, densely pubescent, apex mucronate.

Perianth segments lanceolate, 2. 5--3 mm, margin scarious, apex acute to mucronate.

filament filiform; anther narrowly oblong, 2--2. 8 mm, apex mucronate.

filament filiform; anther narrowly oblong, 1. 5--2 mm, apex mucronate.

Sepals 5, mucronate at apex.

anther yellowish, narrowly oblong, 1. 5--2 mm, apex obtuse or mucronate.

Cupule 1-1. 5 cm; bracts tuberculate, closely appressed, triangular mucronate, 1-2 mm, rarely apical ones slightly ascending.

5 (4) Leaf blade apex mucronate; figs borne on short branchlets or on older leafless branchlets, 5-7 mm in diam. , sessile or subsessile.

portion of segment above wing connivent with others into a long, thin cone, shortly bristly, apex long, hard, spinose mucronate;

lower glume broadly lanceolate, glabrous to hispid, veins smooth except near apex, apex emarginate, minutely mucronate;

lemma apex acute to acuminate, sometimes scarious and incurved, rarely mucronate;

upper lip semicircular, margin ciliolate, apex mucronate;

Filaments dilated at base; anthers yellow, oblong, mucronate at distal end;

lemma narrowly triangular, apex long mucronate;

margin revolute; apex acute and mucronate;

upper glume boat-shaped, apex mucronate or awned;

sepals suborbicular, 1. 5-2 mm, glabrous, apex rounded and retuse with a mucronate tip;

anthers meeting in pairs, locules transverse, base spurred or mucronate, 2-loculed;

Male flowers: perianth lobes (3 or)4, connate at middle, valvate, gibbous or mucronate below apex;

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

bracts pale green, sometimes yellowish at margin, ovate, ca. 2. 5 cm, apex mucronate;

Drupe cup-shaped, 1. 1-1. 5 cm in diam. , densely yellow-brown pubescent, base conical, apex flat to slightly mucronate;

persistent calyx lobes 6 or 7, at fruit apex, lanceolate, ca. 1 cm, apex mucronate;

corolla 5(or 6)-lobed, united to middle, lobes narrowly elliptic, 1-1. 5 mm, apex mucronate, incurved;

Petal limbs suborbicular, 2. 8--4. 5 mm, apex retuse or entire, apically mucronate;