branchlets

The bristles in the inflorescence represent modified branchlets. The genus includes pasture grasses, a cereal crop, and a few noxious weeds.

Branchlets and both surfaces of leaf blade appressed tawny villous or densely appressed silvery tomentose at least when young.

Branchlets, fruiting pedicel, and persistent calyx tube pubescent. Leaf blade abaxially densely pubescent at least on veins.

Current year branchlets, terminal buds, petioles, and abaxial surface of leaf blades pubescent or at least terminal buds pubescent.

Branchlets brown, glabrous or with a few hairs near nodes, with scattered small elliptic lenticels.

Flowers bisexual, axillary, solitary or to 3 on leafy branchlets or congested in clusters to 9 on leafless branches, pedicellate.

Trunk to 50 cm d. b. h. Branchlets densely puberulent with a few much longer hairs, usually tipped with slender inconspicuous spines.

Trees up to 15 m tall, glabrous except for rufous pubescent branchlets, stipules, abaxial leaf surface, pedicels, and sepals.

branchlets occasionally cartilaginous denticulate.

Branchlets, leaf rachis, and inflorescence covered with curved or curled hairs; leaflet margin glabrous; drupe glabrous, longer than wide.

Panicle branches in whorls of up to 8, with branchlets almost to base; lower culm internodes and sheaths villous.

branchlets brown, slender, glabrous, sparsely resinous glandular or not.

Branchlets, petiole, leaf blade, and inflorescence usually not stalked glandular, rarely inconspicuously shortly stalked glandular.

woody branches with spines or not, herbaceous branchlets of current year with leaves and flowers.

Branchlets never spinose, sometimes with a thick and irregularly longitudinally fissured corky layer or with 2 flat opposite corky wings.

Shrubs climbing. Branchlets brown to purplish brown, yellow tomentose when young, gradually glabrescent, with sparse, curved small prickles.

Branchlets grayish brown to grayish black, terete, slender, initially densely yellow pubescent, gradually glabrescent.

Branchlets strict, alternate, dark gray or gray-brown, smooth or longitudinally fissured, terminating in a spine.

Leaves alternate or opposite, sometimes closely clustered at end of branchlets or with flowers on dwarf shoots.

two types of branches present: ligneous growing branches, not deciduous in winter vs. green vegetative branchlets, deciduous in winter.

Branchlets brown or reddish brown, angular, thinly pubescent when young, gradually glabrescent, with slightly curved prickles.

Shrubs evergreen. Young branchlets, annual branches, and inflorescences densely pubescent.

Branchlets slender, those of present year purplish green, pubescent, older ones greenish or yellowish gray, glabrous.

Branchlets densely pubescent when young, glabrescent, purple-brown, longitudinally striped and conspicuously lenticellate.

Inflorescence racemose, clustered subapically on branchlets, produced simultaneously with new leaves, minutely yellowish brown villous.

Branchlets purple-brown, with sparse oblong to linear lenticels, subglabrescent, nodes with a prominent leaf scar.

older branchlets gray-brown, terete, longitudinally ridged, puberulent, lenticels absent, leaf scars raised.

Branchlets reddish brown, cylindric, initially densely soft hairy, glabrescent, with sparse prickles, with white bloom.

herbaceous branchlets of current year short, stout, soon becoming lignified, white, glabrous, apex acuminate, with leaves or flowers.

Flowers axillary, solitary or frequently several clustered on leafless branchlets, pedicellate.

Branchlets glabrous or slightly puberulent, rarely sparsely shortly stalked glandular, unarmed.

Branchlets densely pubescent in first or second year, sometimes with opposite flat corky wings, with scattered yellowish brown lenticels.

branchlets erect or recurved toward left or right, sometimes longer and slender, trailing, longitudinally ribbed, glabrous.

Branchlets and young leaves densely covered with coarse rust-colored thick hairs and pale yellow pubescence.

branchlets, petioles, young leaf blades abaxially, and inflorescences densely covered with grayish, crisp minute hairs.

Branchlets terete, soft hairy, glabrescent, with sparse, needle-like prickles or nearly unarmed, rarely with dense, minute prickles.

Branchlets and leaf midrib glabrous; abaxial leaf surface glabrous, sparsely and inconspicuously black punctate.

densely and minutely reddish puberulent on branchlets, petioles, abaxial leaf surface, and inflorescence rachis.

Branchlets whitish yellow when dried, densely yellowish stellate puberulent when young, glabrescent.

Young branchlets and petioles covered with gray pubescence of elongate hairs. Leaf blade abaxially densely covered with erect pubescence.

Branchlets sparsely pubescent and with pale scurfy hairs.

Branchlets reddish brown, with dense reddish brown long stipitate glands, soft bristles, and long yellowish hairs, usually unarmed.

Trees. Branchlets densely covered with minute stellate pubescence.

Branchlets unarmed or with sparse, minute prickles; leaf margin undulate or inconspicuously lobed, lobes obtuse, rarely acute.

Current year branchlets yellowish brown; sepals ovate, glabrous, margin not ciliolate, apex acute; fruit ovate-ellipsoid.

Branchlets ferruginous villous, old branches glabrous, black-brown, with sparsely gray rounded lenticels.

branchlets longitudinally angled, yellowish brown, glabrous, lenticellate.

branchlets black-brown, terete, densely pubescent when young, soon glabrescent, irregularly angled.

Branchlets conspicuously spreading, pale gray pubescent when young, glabrescent.

Branchlets, petioles, and inflorescences without stipitate glands.

Branchlets sulcate, sparsely covered with early glabrescent long hairs.

Branchlets pubescent when young or densely covered with short grayish white pubescence.

Current year branchlets and terminal buds ferruginous villous; petioles, pedicels, and sepals pubescent.

Branchlets terete, longitudinally angular and sulcate, glandular-pubescent when young.

Young branchlets and petioles covered with gray pubescence of elongate hairs, leaf blades abaxially densely with erect pubescence.

Branchlets, leaf petiole, leaf rachis, and inflorescence densely yellow tomentose; leaflets ovate.

Branchlets purplish brown to dark grayish brown, brown pubescent when young, glabrescent, with many distinct lenticels.

Branchlets green when young, grayish brown with age, slender, spreading, glabrous, with purplish brown small lenticels.

Branchlets red; leaflets narrowly oblong, narrowly ovate, or narrowly obovate-elliptic, abaxially and on inflorescences sparsely pubescent.

Herbaceous branchlets of current year glabrous. Leaves narrowly lanceolate to oblong, narrow, glabrous.

Branchlets spreading, dark reddish brown, terete, robust, initially white pubescent, glabrous when old.

Branchlets grayish brown or brownish, with soft hairs and curved minute prickles, sometimes with sparse, short glandular hairs.

branchlets green, early slightly quadrangular, then cylindric, glabrous.

Branchlets reddish brown, glabrous, sometimes resinous glandular.

Branchlets compressed, light yellow somewhat rigidly strigose, with axillary or lateral tendrils.

Branchlets, petiole, leaf blade, and inflorescence sparsely or densely shortly stalked glandular.

Branchlets slender, sparsely stellate-pubescent and villous when young, becoming glabrous, brown.

branchlets rust-brown puberulent, glabrescent on older branches, with gray-white lenticels and persistent bracts.

Shrubs or trees. Branchlets, petioles, and inflorescences yellow-brown circinate tomentose.

Branchlets tomentose with yellow-brown hairs; leaf blade margin entire or denticulate near apex; capsule with dense long simple hairs.

branches 2 or 3 per node, distant, eventually divaricate, usually branched, up to 15 cm, spikelets often clustered on the branchlets.

Branchlets grayish brown to brownish, terete, initially densely yellowish strigose, glabrous when old.

Branchlets, petioles, and leaf veins crisped pubescent or glabrous; inflorescence a corymbose panicle.

Branchlets, young leaf blades, and figs with bent hairs or densely covered with white soft pubescence.

Herbaceous branchlets and leaves with papillae hairs; leaves bright green, without raised reticulate veins.

Trees or shrubs, evergreen, usually with essential oils-containing cavities in foliage, branchlets, and flowers.

Young branchlets, petioles, and inflorescences slightly yellowish brown to gray-white tomentose.

Branchlets, petioles, and inflorescences with purplish black or purplish brown stipitate glands.

Inflorescence terminal on leafy branchlets, pendulous, racemose, less than 10-flowered, ca. 4 cm, glabrous, appearing after leaves.

Young branchlets, leaves, and valves yellowish green when dry; leaf blade thickly leathery; valves not rugose and curly when fruit ripe.

Branchlets tan to red-brown, sometimes with corky wings, glabrous or sparsely pubescent when young, with scattered lenticels.

Branchlets of previous year purple, those of current year dark purple, glaucous, glabrous or sparsely hairy.

Branchlets densely tawny pubescent, intermixed with bristles and glandular bristles.

Young branchlets and inflorescence rachises glabrous or young branches sparsely pubescent.

Branchlets golden brown pubescent when young, brown and glabrescent with age, with scattered short linear lenticels.

Branchlets and leaves gray stellate tomentose; leaf blade ovate-orbicular, marginal teeth triangular.

Shrubs climbing. Branchlets slender; prickles scattered, hooked.

Branchlets cylindric, those of present year purplish green, glabrous, older ones grayish.

dominant branches usually inflated at base and flexuous, lower branchlets sometimes shortened into weak thorns.

Branchlets unarmed, purple-brown when dry, with several striate lines, sparsely stellate puberulent when young.

Branchlets together with petioles densely brownish yellow tomentose and orange-yellow scaly, glabrous when old.

Generally, the characters of Genus Taxus are: Evergreen trees or shrubs, branchlets irregularly alternate.

Branchlets yellowish green when young, brownish red in second year, old ones grayish brown, with distinct rounded lenticels.

Leaves less densely arranged, longer, especially on shaded branchlets; bracts of seed cones exserted with much longer cusps.

Branchlets black-brown, terete, glabrous or sparsely acicular hirsute, with elliptic lenticels.

Branchlets reddish brown to blackish brown, glabrous, with sparse suborbicular small lenticels.

Branchlets brown, glabrous, with scattered elliptic lenticels, grayish brown on following year.

Branchlets reddish brown or grayish brown to grayish black, terete, slender, initially strigose, glabrous when old.

Branchlets, petioles, pedicel, epicalyx, and calyx densely stellate and woolly pubescent.

Shrubs scandent. Branchlets gray-brown, sparsely pubescent when young, glabrescent.

Branchlets white waxy, glabrous, those of present year purplish green, older ones purple-brown or dark purple.

Samara oblong-elliptic to oblong-obovate; branchlets without a corky layer.

branchlets slender, glabrous, those of present year purple-green or green, older ones gray-green or yellow-green.

Branchlets brown, terete, with dotted or linear lenticels, glabrous, densely scurfy glandular.

Young branchlets occasionally straight, with long and thin adventitious roots, nodes enlarged.

Branchlets brown or reddish brown, terete, with soft hairs, glandular hairs, and sparse, needle-like or small curved prickles.

Branchlets sparsely covered with short white pubescence.

Juvenile branchlets densely tomentose, slightly brownish green.

winter buds brownish yellow, conical-ovoid, slightly resinous, scales slightly opening at base of branchlets.

First-year juvenile branchlets brown, gray downy; leaf blade lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, base rounded.

Branchlets terete, becoming yellowish brown to red-brown and subglabrous, nodes with an elevated leaf scar.

Branchlets yellowish brown, brown with age, densely pubescent when young, with scattered lenticels.

branchlets brownish to dark grayish brown, pubescent initially, glabrescent.

Young branchlets glabrous or white villous-pubescent, glabrescent, glabrous when mature.

Branchlets, petioles, inflorescence rachises, and leaf veins rust colored hirsute.

Branchlets dark reddish brown, terete, initially densely yellow pubescent, glabrous when old.

Current year branchlets and terminal buds glabrous; leaf blade elliptic, oblong-elliptic, or obovate-oblong.

Branchlets purplish red, cylindric, pubescent, with slender prickles.

Branchlets terete, thin, minutely striate, yellowish brown tomentose.

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

Flowers several per glomerule, these arranged on branchlets into axillary panicles shorter than leaves.

Branchlets slightly pendent, slender, together with petioles and leaf blades golden villous when young.

Branchlets and stems with yellowish elliptic lenticels, densely rust colored pubescent.

Branchlets densely yellow pubescent especially on nodes when young, becoming dark brown to gray-yellow and glabrous.

Branchlets of previous year brownish gray, those of current year villous, glabrescent.

Branchlets somewhat flattened or quadrangular, becoming cylindric with age.

Young branchlets, leaves, and valves puce when dry; leaf blade papery to thinly leathery; valves rugose and curly when fruit ripe.

Branchlets stout, densely brown tomentose, hairs intermixed with subulate scales.

Old branches mostly with woody wings; branchlets, petioles, and abaxial leaf surface densely ferruginous pilose, adaxially pubescent.

Branchlets brown or purplish brown to blackish brown, terete, initially yellow strigose, glabrous when old.

Branchlets and young leaves densely covered with white pubescence.

Branchlets pubescent and sparsely hirsute when young; female bracts fan-shaped, denticulate.

Shrubs scandent, glandular granulose on branchlets, bracts, sepals bases, and petals inside.

Branchlets slender, usually pendulous, glabrous.

Branchlets pendulous, yellow, slender, glabrous, shiny.

Branchlets, petioles, and pedicels persistently pilose.

Branchlets, petioles, peduncles, and pedicels glabrous.

Branchlets yellow-green when dry, purple-brown when old, conspicuously striate, terete, glabrous.

Branchlets distinctly lenticellate, densely yellow-brown tomentose when young, glabrescent.

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

Branchlets grayish brown to purplish brown, glabrous, with indistinct small lenticels.

branches 5 or more per node, spreading, very scabrous, bearing branchlets nearly to base, spikelets clustered at the branch apices.

Branchlets densely pubescent when young, glabrescent, unwinged and without a corky layer.

Branchlets brown or reddish brown to purplish red, with purple needle-like prickles, soft hairs, and stipitate glands.

branches mostly compound, spikelets many, crowded on secondary branchlets.

Branchlets, petioles, leaves, and pedicels densely hairy with long hirsute and short glandular hairs.

Branchlets green but reddish on exposed side, slender, glabrous, lustrous, with many small lenticels.

Young branchlets glabrous or with slightly appressed hairs at base, sometimes obscurely spine-tipped.

Branchlets brown or black-purple, brownish pilose or glabrous, with conspicuous white lenticels.

Branchlets purplish brown when old, pilose when young, glabrous when old, with yellowish brown lenticels.

winter buds pale brown, ovoid-conical, not resinous, scales often slightly recurved or opening at base of branchlets.

Branchlets, petioles, abaxial surface of leaves, and inflorescences densely brownish velutinous.

Leaf blade abaxially velutinous; branchlets velutinous; peduncles and pedicels velutinous.

First year's branchlets black-brown to gray-brown, glabrous or pilose, glabrescent, sometimes with lenticels.

Native species; pome small, with long pedicel, leaf blade serrulate; branchlets, buds, and leaves with few hairs.

young branchlets, leaves abaxially, petioles, and inflorescences densely stellate pubescent or woolly with white, gray, or tawny hairs.

Glands present in axils of lateral veins and veinlets, veinlets not prominently raised adaxially; branchlets not conspicuously striate.

Branchlets green, slightly flat, glabrous, with very short sometimes slightly flat spines.

Branchlets purplish brown or slightly blackish, villous or pilose when young, glabrescent.

branchlets obliquely spreading, densely pubescent mixed with erect, long hairs when young.

Branchlets reddish purple, brown with age, densely hirsute with obliquely spreading hairs.

branchlets yellow-brown appressed pubescent, glabrate.

Branchlets of current year conspicuously sulcate, dark reddish brown, glabrous.

Young branchlets and inflorescence rachises rust-colored pubescent.

Branchlets stout, brown tomentose, glabrescent.

branchlets slightly purple, densely brown hispid when young, glabrescent.

Branchlets gray-yellow, terete, with small lenticels, stellate tomentose.

Inflorescences: cymes, fasciculate, axillary on second year's branchlets.

young branchlets, leaves abaxially, petioles, and inflorescences white tomentose or pubescent with stellate hairs.

Branchlets and petioles glabrous, inflorescence hairy when immature; leaf margin not reflexed, abaxially glabrous.

Branchlets purplish brown when old, densely grayish yellow tomentose when young, glabrous when old.

Branchlets slender, glabrous, those of present year green, densely white waxy.

Branchlets greenish or yellowish; leaves not black when dry, margin sharply glandular serrate.

Inflorescences: cymes or compound cymes, solitary, axillary on current year's branchlets.

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

young branchlets densely dull yellow tomentose, glabrescent.

Branchlets glabrous; leaflets petiolulate, oblong to lanceolate, base broadly cuneate to rounded, apex acuminate.

Stem erect, long naked in lower part, leafy in upper part, glabrous, simple or rarely branched and branchlets slender.

Branchlets dark gray, angular, densely gray pubescent when young, glabrescent.

Branchlets, petioles, peduncles, and abaxial surface of leaflets or only veins densely pubescent with short brownish or gray-brownish hairs.

branchlets arranged in a plane, flattened, lower side with white powder.

Branchlets grayish, terete, with stellate hairs, brownish red glandular.

branches and branchlets ascending, gradually slender.

Shrubs or trees. Branchlets mostly yellowish green, slightly angled to winged, glabrous.

winter buds reddish brown, conical or ovoid, scales slightly open, rarely appressed at base of branchlets.

branchlets on lower nodes usually specialized into weak thorns, on middle and upper nodes many, clustered.

Branchlets glabrous except young parts, conspicuously lenticellate.

Branchlets, petiole, and peduncle without translucent hairs; leaf blade lanceolate, papery or subleathery.

branchlets with ferruginous, deciduous scales.

Branchlets and petioles densely, snow white tomentose; leaf margin crenulate.

winter buds pale brown-yellow, conical, resinous, scales slightly recurved at base of branchlets.

Branchlets gray, densely villous and pubescent when young, glabrescent.

Inflorescences: cymes, solitary, axillary on current year's branchlets.

Branchlets green, usually arcuate, terete, angled when young, glabrous.

Branchlets, petioles, and veins crisped pubescent and pellucid villous.

Inflorescences: cymes, fasciculate, axillary at base of current year's branchlets.

herbaceous branchlets of current year glabrous, soon becoming lignified, spiny at apex.

Branchlets glabrous except very young parts, with conspicuous lenticels and leaf scars.

Branchlets, petioles, and pedicel glabrous, with sparse prickles.

Branchlets, petioles, and peduncles glabrous; leaflets abaxially glabrous or sparsely pubescent on veins.

Branchlets purple-brown, distinctly lenticellate, with sparse stellate hairs when young, sub-glabrescent.

Leaflets of peduncle obtuse at apex, smaller than leaves of branchlets; ovary shortly stipitate.

Branchlets, fruiting pedicel, and persistent calyx tube glabrous. Leaf blade abaxially glabrous or veins or vein axils sparsely hairy.

Branchlets hirsute; both surfaces of young leaves and inflorescences pilose.

Branchlets rust-colored pubescent to nearly glabrous, usually with prickles.

Branchlets with many tumor like lenticels, conspicuously prominent with age.

Current year branchlets, petioles, pedicels, and outside of sepals glabrous.

vegetative branchlets ascending from growing branches nearly at right angle.

branchlets of those on lower nodes sometimes forming weak thorns.

Branchlets, petioles, and abaxial veins pilose; petals not corniculate; seeds obtriangular, surface with ribs.

Branchlets, leaf rachis, leaf petiole, and lower side of leaflet midrib minutely pubescent.

Inflorescences: cymes, solitary, axillary at scales or leaves of current year's branchlets.

Branchlets 4-angled, with sparse simple hairs, nodes with a ring of hairs or transverse scar.

Branchlets, fruiting pedicel, and persistent calyx tube glabrous; leaf blade abaxially glabrous or sparsely hairy on veins or vein axils.

Branchlets pale brown to pale reddish brown, slender, sometimes pendulous, hairy.

herbaceous branchlets of current year dark brown, slender, with dense papillose hairs.

First-year branchlets yellow. Winter buds globose. Leaf scars obscurely protruding on branchlets. Apex of seed scales obtuse-rounded.

Old branchlets glabrous, young branchlets densely covered with coarse dark brown hairs.

Branchlets yellowish brown, slender, with reddish yellow scurfy hairs.

Bracts oblong, apex truncate; branchlets yellowish or yellowish brown.

Scandent shrubs or lianas, with axillary tendrils. Branchlets unarmed.

old branchlets yellow-brown, striate, glabrous, with sparse lenticels.

young branchlets pale rusty to yellowish brown tomentose, glabrescent.

Flowers in axillary clusters, usually male inserted at lower part of branchlets, female inserted at upper part of branchlets.

Branchlets sparsely lenticellate, dusty yellow tomentose when young, becoming yellow-brown and glabrous.

Flowers solitary, axillary on upper branchlets, pendulous.

Shrubs climbing. Branchlets rust-brown stellate tomentose.

Branchlets, petioles, and rachis densely brownish yellow hispid.

Branchlets, leaf rachis, leaf petiole, and lower side of leaflet midrib densely pubescent.

Branchlets brown to purplish brown, glabrous, with sparse, curved prickles.

Branchlets grayish brown to purplish brown, glabrous, with small lenticels.

Pollen cones ovoid-conical or columnar, 10-22 mm; short branchlets as wide as long.

Monoecious. Branches and branchlets terete, brown to blackish when dry, striate.

Branchlets grayish white to grayish brown when dry, terete, slightly compressed.

winter buds yellowish brown or brown, ovoid, not resinous, scales appressed at base of branchlets.

Branchlets yellow-brown, with small lenticels, densely yellow-brown pilose when young, becoming brown and subglabrous.

Branchlets and leaves rust-colored pubescent when young, glabrescent.

branchlets red-brown, densely white pubescent and resinous glandular.

Shrubs scandent. Branchlets purple-black, glabrous.

branchlets stout, cylindric, pale gray-brown at maturity, red-brown when young, glabrous.

Branchlets with prickles, becoming tuberculate on old branches.

Branchlets slender; winter buds small, scales ovate, pubescent.

Branchlets dark gray, with scattered small yellowish lenticels.

current year branchlets densely grayish yellow pubescent.

Branchlets dark brown, asperous, with longitudinal slits.

Branchlets brown or dark chestnut colored, glabrous, pubescent when young.

second year branchlets grayish yellow, yellowish gray, or yellowish brown.

branchlets of first year's growth reddish brown, densely brown villous, glabrescent.

Second year's branchlets dark gray-brown, thick, glabrescent, with oblong lenticels.

Branchlets, veins on both surfaces of leaves, petioles, and catkin rachis tomentose.