subsessile

Herbs annual, 20-60 cm tall, with a strong odor, covered with articulated, glandular hairs and sessile (rarely subsessile) glands.

Plants with sessile (rarely subsessile) glands; perianth segments not abaxially keeled or with a weak keel, erect in fruit (N Xinjiang).

Upper cauline leaves shortly petiolate or subsessile, similar to lowermost leaves, progressively smaller upward.

Flowers shortly pedicellate or subsessile, white, yellowish, green, or dark purple-brown, funnelform, cupular to opening flat.

Leaves subsessile, scale-like, shortly terete or linear, small, margin entire, often fleshy or leathery, with salt-secreting glands.

Male flowers: subsessile, zygomorphic, subtended by two slender rudimentary or indistinct bracts.

umbellules with both sessile or subsessile, bisexual flowers and pedicellate, staminate flowers.

flowers long pedicellate at base of inflorescence, gradually becoming subsessile toward apex.

Basal leaves petiolate or subsessile, rosulate or not, simple, entire or dentate.

Stipules absent. Leaves simple, spirally arranged or alternate, often crowded, subsessile or petiolate, pinnately veined.

Leaves opposite, occasionally alternate in upper part of stem, sessile or subsessile.

Flowers axillary or subterminal, solitary or paired, large, subsessile.

leaflets opposite, sessile or subsessile, doubly serrate.

Cauline leaves absent or similar to basal ones, entire or toothed, subsessile or petiolate.

Leaves sessile or subsessile; stems pruinose, with condensed nodes.

Leaves subsessile or indistinctly petiolate, petiole to 1 cm, leaf blade nearly sword-shaped to linear-oblanceolate.

Stem leaves few, short petiolate to subsessile, smaller than basal leaves.

Leaf blade glabrous; figs subsessile; male flowers sessile.

Stem leaves petiolate or subsessile, ternate.

Inflorescences spicate, lax, to 25 cm. Flowers subsessile, solitary from bract axils.

Stems erect. Leaves alternate, sessile to subsessile, gradually decreasing in size upward, pinnately parted, 1-veined.

Flowers subsessile or sessile, yellow-green.

upper leaves subsessile or sessile, 3-sect, segments linear, undivided or lateral segments 2-partite.

Trichomes stellate, subsessile, with 4 unequal rays at least 1 of which with 2 subbasal branches.

Ovary glabrous, stigmas 3, subsessile.

Fruiting pedicels 1-3(-4) mm, ascending, straight, tomentose all around with subsessile, stellate trichomes.

Trichomes stalked or subsessile, 1- or 2-forked sometimes also simple.

Leaves subsessile but not clasping; petals 5-8 mm; stigma surrounded by anthers of longer stamens at anthesis.

Cauline leaf subsessile, amplexicaul, ca. 1 cm. Flower ca. 7 mm in diam.

Stem leaves subsessile or sessile, palmately 5--9-partite, lobes lanceolate.

Leaflets thinly leathery. Sepals (4 or)5(or 6), adaxially more subsessile glandular hairy; veins arcuate, confluent at apex.

Pedicel ca. 1 mm or flowers subsessile.

12 (11) Flowers and fruit in heads, sessile or subsessile.

Flowers axillary, solitary, sessile, subsessile, or shortly pedicellate and then pedicel 0. 3-0. 4 mm at fruiting stage.

bracts sessile or subsessile, broadly ovate to ovate-triangular, 1. 4--3 cm.

Fruiting catkin 10-18 cm. Capsule ovoid-globose, glabrous, 3- or 4-valved, sessile or subsessile.

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

3 (2) Leaves subsessile, leaf blade pubescent only along sides of midvein abaxially, ligule 2--4 mm.

lateral ones smaller, ovate or lanceolate-ovate, subsessile, margin somewhat thickly serrate, rarely entire, glabrous;

Leaves decussate, becoming alternate near inflorescence, sessile or subsessile;

anthers subsessile, inserted in shallow depression, locules distinct;

Leaves alternate, subsessile, lower leaves small, withering early, upper leaves crowded, subverticillate;

Fruit dehiscent siliques, linear or cylindric, terete or flattened and latiseptate, shortly stipitate or subsessile;

Basal leaves in subsessile rosettes, spiral or decussate, mostly alternate;

Stems golden, thin, ca. 1 mm in diam. Inflorescences lateral, compact cymose glomerules, few to many flowered, subsessile;

Gall flowers: shortly pedicellate or subsessile;

Female flower: ovary long ovoid, downy, subsessile;

Stamens 6, inserted at middle of perianth tube, positioned nearly level with stigma, subsessile;

Stamens 10, lower whorl inserted above middle of calyx tube, upper whorl near throat, subsessile;

Fruit dehiscent siliques, linear, terete or somewhat 4-angled, rarely latiseptate, sessile or subsessile;

Fruit dehiscent siliques, linear, terete, 4-angled, or latiseptate, subsessile;

Male inflorescences solitary, simple, 3-5 mm in diam. , sessile or subsessile; receptacle nearly absent;

Basal leaves subsessile or sessile;

Heads terminal or axillary, composed of 3-7-flowered cymes, stalked or subsessile. Flowers bisexual;

Petiole of lower stem leaves to 7 cm below, decreasing in size to subsessile upward;

Staminate flowers white, ca. 5 mm, with very short pedicel or subsessile;

Stamens 6, inserted at base of perianth tube, subsessile;

Petiole ca. 8 mm to subsessile, with glandular trichomes;

Flowers 5-merous, subsessile or sessile;

Female flowers 3 or 4 in a row on slightly fleshy flabellate peduncular receptacle, subsessile, ca. 1 mm;

Leaves sessile or subsessile; ligule 2-cleft, 5--8 mm, membranous, glabrous, lobes obtuse at apex;

Male flowers greenish, subsessile, in bud obovoid, ca. 1. 2 mm;

Petiole subglabrous, 7-18 cm but leaf subsessile below inflorescence;

Male flowers subsessile, in bud ca. 1 mm;

Male flowers: usually solitary, rarely in cymules of 2--4, sessile or subsessile;

Flowers subsessile, globose, ca. 2 mm in diam. Calyx 5-lobed;

ovary cylindric-ovoid, 2-2. 2 mm, glabrous or downy proximally, subsessile;

Petiole ca. 1 cm to leaf subsessile;

Male flowers pink, subsessile, in bud obovoid, ca. 0. 2 mm;

Male flowers subsessile, in bud obovoid, ca. 1. 2 mm;

Leaves subsessile; ligule 2-lobed, 4--7 mm, densely pubescent;

Fruit a juicy berry, green becoming purple-red, sessile or subsessile, globose, 2. 5--4. 5 cm, apex obtuse;

Male flowers subsessile, in bud ca. 1. 5 mm;

Male flowers subsessile, in bud 1. 2 mm;

Anther subsessile, ca. 1. 2 cm;