scalelike

Stems several, erect, base woody and with scalelike leaves, branched above middle, non flowering shoots rudimentary.

bracts mound-shaped, arranged in disconnected rings, sparsely puberulent, covered with waxy scalelike trichomes.

Flowers in thyrses; young leaves usually covered with stellate trichomes or peltate scalelike trichomes.

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

jointed and nearly leafless desert shrub having reduced scalelike leaves and reddish fleshy seeds.

bracts reduced and united into concentric rings, with tawny, waxy scalelike glands.

Trees rarely to 10 m tall, glabrous except branchlets and inflorescences covered with tawny, waxy scalelike trichomes.

young branchlets and leaf blades abaxially covered with adherent waxy scalelike trichomes.

bracts reduced and united into 6-8 irregular concentric rings, with tawny, waxy scalelike glands and sparsely puberulent.

Leaves scalelike on lower nodes.

9 (8) Petioles with reflexed scalelike hairs.

filaments short, flat with a scalelike appendage inside;

peduncle usually compressed, without a scalelike prophyll at base. Flowers small;

Inflorescence borne in axil of leaf or scalelike bract, a solitary, many-flowered umbel;

Elementary analysis of failure of scalelike fire grate

branchlets loosely arranged, spreading, straight, stout, terete, 1-2 mm in diam. Leaves both scalelike and needle like;

anthers red, obovoid, ca. 1. 5 mm. Female flowers: staminodes scalelike;

Scape with 1 or 2 ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate scalelike bracts sheathing at base;

Racemes in axils of normal leaves, scalelike leaves along stem, 2--4-flowered;

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

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

branchlets usually curved, 4-angled, 1-1. 7 mm in diam. Leaves both scalelike and needle like;