subulate

If you yearn for a carpet of color on a bank or sloping area of your garden, plant some phlox subulate .

filaments at least in male and bisexual flowers subulate to filiform at apex.

teeth triangular-subulate, at least as long as tube, apex long spiny.

Leaves sessile, linear to subulate or linear-lanceolate, leathery, usually persistent, margin slightly swollen, apex usually acuminate.

Stamens included; filaments straight, subulate, lacking appendages, anthers dehiscing by terminal pores.

Leaves prominently black punctate-lineate; bracts subulate, bracteoles and calyx lobes longer than wide, apery, apex acute.

Characterized by the subulate appendage at the junction of connective and filament.

Filaments subulate, slightly shorter than perianth segments, connate at base and adnate to perianth segments.

rays and pedicels very unequal. Calyx teeth subulate, conspicuous, unequal, persistent in fruit.

Herbs, perennial. Stipules subulate, asymmetric, veins adaxially slightly elevated.

Leaf blade usually lanceolate to ovate, rarely linear or subulate, herbaceous, rarely leathery.

filaments subulate; anthers cylindric to broadly elliptic, with or without an unlike appendage.

Lower lemmas short and subulate, or longer and sometimes staminate, often pubescent, not wrinkled or hooked.

basal bracts united into concentric rings, triangular, apical ones reduced to a subulate tip or a wartlike appendage, small and obscure.

teeth linear-subulate or umbonate, equal or not.

pedicel slender, pubescent, subtended by a subulate bract.

lower teeth triangular-subulate, straight, shorter than lateral lobes.

teeth 5, broadly triangular to subulate, straight, spreading or reflexed, bristle like-acuminate to acute or widened into wings from veins.

proximal bracts sometimes leaflike, distal ones small, linear or subulate.

abaxial appendages uncinate, subulate, or triangular in fruit.

Style as long as stamens, anterior lobe subulate, posterior lobe short to inconspicuous.

Leaves pinnately lobed, margin irregularly lobed or parted; calyx teeth subulate, base enlarged into glands.

calyx teeth broadly triangular, ca. 1 mm, margin membranous proximally, ciliate, apex subulate-spinose.

lobes somewhat unequal, subulate, enlarged in fruit, substellate spreading.

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

connective apical appendage hornlike, subulate, as long as anther.

teeth triangular, apex subulate-acuminate.

Filaments subulate, slightly shorter than perianth segments, connate at base for ca. 1 mm and adnate to perianth segments.

Calyx teeth subulate or lanceolate when young, becoming dilated.

Pistillodes subulate, concealed within filament tube.

proximal bracts leaflike, distal ones linear or subulate.

Leaf blade 3-pinnate, ultimate segments long-ovate or broadly ovate; calyx teeth obsolete or rarely subulate.

staminodes 5, subulate to triangular, inserted in throat and alternating with corolla lobes.

Stipules linear to subulate, margin with stalked glands.

Calyx teeth subulate or triangular, caducous.

anterior teeth subulate, shorter.

style simple; stigma subulate, usually not lobed.

Trees or shrubs. Branchlets usually with unguiculate hairs or subulate scales.

Inflorescences axillary, rarely terminal, 1-3 cm. Bracts and calyx lobes linear-lanceolate to subulate, glabrous or ciliate.

female ones oblong or subulate, apex short acuminate.

floral subtending bracts subulate, ca. 1 mm, pubescent with ciliate margins.

2 (1) Leaf blade marginal teeth each with subulate apiculum or seta; stigmas with a nipple-like protuberance.

teeth 5, equal or posterior ones longer, rigidly subulate-spinescent.

lobes subulate-triangular, as long as tube, apex acute.

Lateral staminodes subulate, ca. 2 mm, densely glandular hairy.

Callus of lemma smooth; glumes subulate.

bractlets ovate or subulate, inserted near middle of peduncle.

Style longer than stamens, apex unequally 2-cleft, lobes subulate.

floral subtending bracts subulate, ca. 1 mm, pubescent.

bracts small, subulate.

Lateral staminodes red, subulate, ca. 3 mm, adnate to base of labellum.

Calyx campanulate or tubular, truncate, 2-5-dentate, or glandular subulate-dentate.

bracteoles 2, small, subulate or nearly bristly.

teeth 5, equal, subulate, apex spinescent.

proximal bracts 3-fid, distal ones subulate, very small.

anterior teeth subulate, ca. 2 mm, apex spinescent.

Female flowers: staminodes subulate, ca. 1 mm.

Style apex 2-cleft, lobes subulate, subequal.

Nutlets brown, subulate, trigonous-tetrahedral, ca. 1. 5 mm, smooth.

Calyx lobes ovate, ca. 3. 5 mm, glandular on margin, inside, and outside, apex subulate.

Sepals nearly subulate, ca. 2 mm, hairy on both surfaces.

Seeds with 1 hairlike or subulate appendage at each end.

bracts lanceolate to subulate, broadly membranous at margin, basal one 2--4 cm.

Lateral staminodes pale red, subulate, ca. 1 cm.

Inflorescences axillary or terminal, panicles, to 21 cm, bisexual, bracts subulate, ca. 2. 5 mm, villous.

Spur cylindric-subulate, base 3--5 mm in diam. Ovaries densely puberulent.

Lateral staminodes subulate, ca. 1 mm wide.

Stem and raceme subglabrous or with sparse hairs. Spur cylindric-subulate, base 3--5 mm in diam. Ovaries glabrous.

Leaves deeply 3-lobed, lobes dentate; petiole with 2 glands apically; stipules linear-subulate.

Lateral staminodes subulate, ca. 5 mm.

Lateral staminodes subulate, ca. 3 mm.

Calyx teeth narrowly triangular or lanceolate-subulate, ca. 1. 5 mm.

upper 3 teeth triangular, lower 2 triangular-subulate.

Spur cylindric-subulate, nearly equaling sepals, base 4--5 mm in diam.

Leaves linear, linear-subulate, or setaceous, 1- or 3-veined.

Stem and pedicels retrorsely puberulent and yellowish glandular puberulent; spur shorter, subulate, 1. 7--2 cm.

Trees or shrubs, not gland-dotted; epicalyx lobes 0. 2-1 cm, subulate to lanceolate, caducous.

bracts subulate, 1-1. 5 mm, glabrous, red punctate, margin roughly serrulate.

spur cylindric-subulate, ca. 2 cm, straight, base ca. 3 mm in diam.

Stem and pedicels retrorsely puberulent and yellowish glandular puberulent. Spur subulate, 1. 7--2 cm.

Leaf blade subulate, 5--7 cm, 3-veined, base broadened, membranous, apex acute.

Bracts subulate, ca. 5 mm, hairy abaxially.

stigma 3-5-lobed, lobes conical or subulate, erect.

bracteoles subulate with 1(or 2) lateral lobes.

Tepals 4, light red, subulate-lanceolate, ca. 2 mm, white lanose.

anthers ca. 3. 5 mm, bases abaxially slightly decurrent forming a short spur and adaxially subulate bulging.

Calyx shallowly cup-shaped, sub truncate with 5 subulate 4-8 mm teeth, stellate puberulent.

Stipules subulate, 1. 5-2 cm, apically curved, sometimes persistent.

Leaves subulate to narrowly linear, shorter than scape, 0. 5--1 mm wide, semiterete, adaxially channeled.

Capsule globose, 1-1. 2 cm in diam. , tomentose and softly spiny, spines subulate, 5-7 mm, stellate-pubescent.

spur cylindric-subulate, ca. 2. 2 cm, base ca. 3 mm in diam.

Stem and pedicels retrorsely puberulent only; spur cylindric-subulate or subulate, 1. 7--3. 3 cm.

spur sub horizontal, subulate or conic-tubular, 1. 1--2 cm, recurved, base 2. 5--6 mm in diam.

Inflorescences in axils of whorled leaves or alternate subulate bracts, subumbellate, few flowered, hirsute;

filaments often swollen, fleshy and cylindric proximally, sometimes subulate;

bracts and bracteoles several, similar to leaves but more cartilaginous, apex subulate, persistent;

Leaves sessile, alternate, subulate or acicular, base expanded, apex pellucid;

stipules linear-subulate, ca. equal to petioles, puberulent, persistent;

filament subulate, fleshy, slightly flattened;

Stipules minute, subulate, glabrous, early caducous;

filaments adnate to base of limb, subulate, base broadened with ascending projections;

anthers subulate to broadly ovate, dehiscence poricidal;

stamens subequaling petals, anthers 2-the cate, longitudinally dehiscent, connectives yellow, subulate;

Female flower with stamens reduced to subulate staminodes;

The artifactitious milling about the large-size straight subulate gears

stipules dark brown, narrowly lanceolate or subulate, ca. 4 mm, slightly hairy, fugacious;

bracts subulate, ca. 1 mm. Male flowers: sepals ovate-triangular, stellate-pubescent;

Leaves usually dimorphic: juvenile leaves spreading, not 2-ranked, linear to needle like or subulate, rarely falcately curved;

terminal segment indehiscent, seedless or 1- or 2-seeded, flattened and ensiform, or terete and conical or subulate, sometimes corky;

A subulate small scale from abaxial face of pinna ;

style 1, simple, usually free from distal part of calyx tube, subulate to filiform;

anthers as long as filaments or longer, subulate or oblong-linear, not appendaged at base;

Leaves 5-10 mm, margin membranous, apex subulate, with an acicular awn;

stipules subulate, ca. 7 mm, margin erose, long fimbriate;

lower and middle leaves spreading or recurved, subulate, ca. 3 mm;

Style subulate or filiform;

Petiole 2. 5-5 cm, pubescent to glabrescent, with minute hairs intermixed with subulate and unguiculate scales;

bracteoles subulate or narrowly linear, 3--5 mm. Sepals deep purple-blue, abaxially glabrous;

Stipules subulate-lanceolate, brown, 1-3 mm, hard and spiny when dry;

Stipules elliptic, 3-5[-8] mm, chocolate brown, apex subulate, deciduous;

proximal bracts leaflike, distal ones small, subulate, to 7 mm. Pedicels 1--3 cm;

Stipules subulate, 1-2 mm, curved outward;

Stamen filaments subulate, ca. 1. 5 mm;

bracts of flower pairs subulate, 1-3 mm;

bracteoles subulate, 7. 5--9. 5 mm. Sepals blue or white, abaxially sparsely glandular puberulent;

Filaments subulate, 4-4. 5 mm, pubescent at base, inserted 5-6 mm above base of corolla tube;