spatulate

staminodes present or not, sometimes persistent, awl-shaped, spatulate, or petaloid, sometimes connected into a tube.

Blades of rosette leaves narrowly spatulate to oblong-oblanceolate, gradually narrowed into a petiole; corolla rose.

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Stem copiously branched, branches slender; basal leaves spatulate or oblanceolate, tapering into a long petiole.

Tepals 6, free, spatulate or linear-oblanceolate to oblong, adaxially often with a deep pocket of a nectary gland at base, persistent.

Calyx teeth obsolete. Petals white, purple or greenish yellow, spatulate to obovate with a narrow inflexed apex.

Petals white, greenish white, pale yellow, purple or pale blue, spatulate or obovate with a narrowly inflexed apex.

Leaflets 5--9, spatulate, apex long caudate and with a filiform easily broken tip; sepals thick, subtlety.

Petals narrowly oblong, elliptic, ligulate, or spatulate, glabrous outside, orange punctate, apex rounded or emarginate.

leaf blade spatulate, apex rounded and with a short awn.

Sepals entire, rarely apiculate, elliptic to narrowly oblong or obovate-spatulate; leaf apex acute or rarely obtuse.

Petals spatulate or obovate-lanceolate, shorter than sepals, apex deeply emarginate.

Corolla pale green, brownish, or reddish brown, slightly curved, distal portion slightly inflated, lobes spatulate, ca. 4 mm, reflexed.

pollen tetrads in masses, solitary in each anther cell, pollen carriers spatulate, erect.

Leaf apex caudate-acuminate, lateral veins adaxially flattened, elevated abaxially; male sepals oblong-lanceolate; female sepals spatulate.

Petals spatulate, clawed, enfolding stamens.

anthers yellow. Nectar scales spatulate-rectangular, longer than wide, base subcuneate, apex rounded.

Leaf blade spatulate to obovate, base abruptly contracted to obtuse, apex rounded.

Petals white, oblong or spatulate, nearly as long as or somewhat shorter than sepals, base clawed.

Petals yellow or rarely white, spatulate, longer than sepals, apex obtuse.

bracteoles 2, linear-spatulate, ca. as long as ovary, soon caducous, disk and stamens as in male but stamens sterile.

Petals spatulate. Stamens shorter than petals.

Corolla slightly curved, hairy, basal part inflated, lobes spatulate, ca. 8 mm, reflexed.

Fruit winged only above the middle, constricted and often curved at middle, spatulate, often with crisped trichomes; petals 1-2 mm.

Leaf blade less than 1 cm; nectar scales linear-spatulate, ca. 1 mm, apex emarginate.

Petals 5, lower part deeply concave, middle part becoming narrow, upper spatulate.

leaf blade obovate-spatulate, 3-7 cm including petiole, margin coarsely serrate, sometimes pinnatisect.

Petals free, blue, spatulate or orbicular, inner (anterior) 2 larger and clawed.

Corolla white; lobes nearly free, spatulate to oblanceolate, ca. 5 mm, apex rounded.

Petiole short; leaf blade spatulate to ovate, 3-6 cm, black when dry, base tapering, margin serrate or rarely double serrate.

Petals spatulate, shorter than sepals, apex 2-lobed, involute.

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

Petals 5, yellowish white, narrowly lanceolate or spatulate-lanceolate, ca. 2 mm, apex obtuse.

Petals spatulate, ca. 9 mm, glabrous, inserted at disk margin.

Petals elliptic-spatulate, ca. 1 mm, apex emarginate.

leaf blade obovate-spatulate, 1. 5-9 cm including petiole, base tapering, margin undulate and toothed, or irregularly crenate.

Nectar scales broadly spatulate, ca. 1 mm, apex retuse.

leaf blade obovate to obovate-spatulate, 1-4 cm, base tapering, margin incised-serrate.

lobes broadly oblong to suborbicular, ca. 4 mm. Petals cuneate-spatulate, ca. 2 mm. Stamens subequaling petals.

involucral bracts 4, outer 2 sessile, narrowly deltoid-ovate, inner 2 long petiolate, spatulate, thin.

Calyx spatulate, ca. 7 mm, apex 5-toothed, densely minutely puberulent.

Petals 5 or 6, white or purple, distinct, linear-spatulate, expanding.

bracts brownish, dull brown distally, spatulate, ca. 1. 2 mm, villous.

epicalyx lobes spatulate tongue-shaped, 1-1. 5 cm, obviously dentate, teeth acuminate.

Leaves lanceolate, elliptic or spatulate, 3- or 5-veined.

lobes reflexed or spreading, oblong to ovate, 1. 5-2. 5 mm. Petals spatulate or flabellate, minute.

Leaf blade spatulate-linear to linear, 2-7 mm wide, abaxially with few bristles along midvein only.

Stamens 10, 2-3 mm. Nectar scales broadly spatulate, apex emarginate to shallowly cleft.

lobes erect, spatulate-orbicular to obovate-ligulate, 1. 5-2. 5 mm, margin ciliate.

Stamens ca. 0. 6 mm. Nectar scales spatulate-linear, ca. 0. 6 mm. Carpels oblong-ovoid.

leaf blade spatulate to narrowly oblanceolate, gradually narrowed into a short petiole, somewhat fleshy, glossy and glabrous when mature;

Male flowers: bracts ovate, ca. 0. 5 mm, apex acuminate, mostly covered by a pair of large spatulate glands;

basal leaves with narrow petiole, leaf blade obovate-spatulate, base attenuate, apex obtuse to rounded;

petals 3, oblanceolate-spatulate, equal or anterior one slightly larger than others, densely white hairy, gland black, large;

bracts spatulate-oblong, adaxially glabrous, margin sometimes crenate or with 2 nicked teeth, apex obtuse or sub truncate;

filaments short, apex hooded or spatulate;

petals (2 or)3, oblanceolate-spatulate, anterior one slightly larger than others, white hairy, gland black or brown;

petals 3, spatulate, anterior one larger than others, membranous, villous, gland borne on only 2 or all 3 petals, black;

basal leaves in a rosette, obovate or obovate-spatulate, 1. 5-2 cm;

bracteoles distal, narrowly oblong or spatulate-oblong, 0. 9--1. 1 cm. Sepals persistent, blue-purple, abaxially sparsely puberulent;

disk glands 5, orbicular or obovate, or spatulate, apex truncate or retuse, ca. 0. 1 mm in diam. , entire; stamens (2 or)3;

petals 4(or 5), greenish white, spatulate to clawed, ca. 1. 8 mm;