tepal

Morphology of the androecium, perianth (tepals), and the inflorescence has traditionally been used to circumscribe genera and tribes.

Tepals 6, free, often colored, outer and inner ones different in shape, apex usually with a minute tuft of white hairs.

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

Lobed parts of blade narrowly lanceolate; perianth usually purple-red, tepals entire at margin.

styles short. Mericarp reniform, mostly spiny tuberculate, sometimes also some smooth, surrounded by persistent tepals.

Leaves oblong or elliptic, or lanceolate, prominently veined; outer tepals reniform, spreading in fruit.

Tepals greenish, with purple spots throughout; filaments slightly shorter than anthers.

Leaves cordate-obovate to broadly ovate, apex acuminate, margin nearly entire; tepals purple at margin.

Stem white villous; tepals rigid after anthesis; inflorescences silvery.

The flowers vary from white to cream or pink and the tepals are often boldly striped with dark pink.

Leaf blade with a horseshoe-shaped band; tepals pinkish or pink.

Lobed parts of blade linear; perianth white, tepals slightly sinuolate at margin.

tepals of pistillate flowers caducous, if persistent not thickened when fruiting.

Tepals yellow, pale yellow, or greenish yellow, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate.

Furthermore, anthocyanins and their anthocyanidins were contained in the red inner tepals or the ones with red speckles.

Tepals 5, persistent, free, pale green to white, often flushed pink to red, rarely yellowish, herbaceous with membranous margin.

Leaves glabrous. Tepals pale yellow, yellow, brownish yellow, or purplish yellow, with purple or purple-red spots adaxially.

Flowers upright , spreading, up to 5cm across. Tepals 4, sometimes 5or6, white.

inner tepals abaxially longitudinally streaked with purplish green at center, wider than outer ones, clawed at base.

Tepals white, violet veined, base mottled with purple; seeds subdeltoid or crescent-shaped-deltoid, flat.

Tepals 5, persistent, spreading or reflexed, oblong to ovate, herbaceous or membranous, apex obtuse.

Tepals yellowish green, pale yellow-green, greenish, or pale green, with purple or bright red spots adaxially.

tepals connate, forming a bottle-shaped tube with opening only at toothed apex.

Bulb scales articulate; tepals pale orange-red, with purple-red spots.

Outer tepals oblong, longer than above joint portion of pedicel.

Capsule broadly ellipsoid, ca. as long as tepals or slightly shorter.

The tepals were developed earlier than the stamens, both from the floret primordium.

tepals narrowly elliptic, unequal in size, outer 3 larger and keeled or narrowly winged on abaxial surface, slightly accrescent in fruit.

Tepals of perfect flowers lanceolate, apex acute.

Tepals not yellow at base; filaments wholly hairy, rarely so only at base.

Tepals 6, free, white, greenish, yellow, pink, dark red, or dark purple, often saccate or spurred at base.

Leaf blade symmetric or nearly so; tepals pink to brownish red.

Outer tepals of staminate flowers and ovary red pilose.

Tepals pale purple or purplish red, rarely white, with deep purple spots adaxially.

pedicel articulate. Tepals 6, free, deciduous or persistent in fruit.

Flowers small. Tepals 6, free, ascending to spreading, subequal.

Capsule globose, membranous, 3(-5)-valved, loculicidal, with persistent tepals.

Tepals 4 or 5, persistent, free or connate at base, equal or unequal, imbricate in bud, green or sometimes other colored.

inner tepals ovate, unequal, 7-8 mm in diam. , prominently reticulated-veined, margin undulate.

Tepals 6, free, spreading or reflexed, persistent.

Tepals 6, usually free, spreading, persistent in fruit.

Tepals 5, membranous, long hairy or nearly glabrous, base not rigid.

Tepals pale yellowish green, narrowly lanceolate, broadly ovate, or subdeltoid, ca. 2 mm.

Pistillate inflorescences ca. 3 mm in diam. , sessile; pistillate flowers: tepals 5.

Tepals 6, free, spreading, recurved, or reflexed.

Tepals 5, rarely 1-4, erect or obliquely spreading, sometimes indurate at base after anthesis, green, equal or subequal, membranous.

Tepals 5, rarely 4, free, herbaceous, often with transparent scarious margins.

Tepals 6, free, outer ones usually slightly wider than inner.

11 (10) Outer tepals oblong-ovate, ca. as long as or slightly shorter than above joint portion of pedicel.

Capsule ellipsoid, slightly shorter than persistent tepals, 3- or 4-valved.

Tepals greenish white or yellowish white, oblong, ca. 1 mm.

Capsule ovoid, ca. as long as persistent tepals, 5-valved.

Perianth pinkish; tepals elliptic, unequal, 2-2. 5 mm, with conspicuous green veins. Stamens included.

Tepals tinged pale green-yellow along midvein abaxially.

Stamens 3--4 mm, not extending beyond tepals at anthesis or slightly so in fruit.

Tepals greenish white, yellowish, or milky-colored, oblong, 3-4 mm, margin membranous, 3-veined.

Capsule subglobose, ca. as long as persistent tepals, 3-valved.

Tepals pale yellowish green, narrowly lanceolate, ca. 1. 5 mm.

5 (4) Leaf blade occasionally not peltate, without angular lobes; staminate tepals 4.

bracteoles lanceolate, ca. 2 mm. Tepals white, shiny, oblong, 5-6 mm, glabrous, apex acute.

Tepals 5, slightly rigid after anthesis, 5-veined.

Flowers small. Tepals purple-red, rarely light red, orbicular, inner 3 larger, ca. 1. 5 mm.

Tepals basally pale yellowish green and apically dark purplish red, lanceolate to oblanceolate, ca. 1. 5 mm.

Tepals 4 but sometimes 5 or 6, white, cream, yellow, or yellow stained with red-purple.

Stamens 4--9 mm, shorter than tepals at anthesis.

Tepals 6, not spreading, white-green or yellow-white, outer 3 smaller, inner 3 very broad to orbicular, ca. 2 mm.

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

Flower white or pink, tepals 20-40 mm long, anthers 6, style longer than the stamens, curved sideways, stigma broadly 3-lobed.

Stamens distinct, 4 or 5 in plants with sepals and petals, 3-8(-10) in plants with tepals, rudimentary or lacking in female flowers.

Outer tepals quite different in shape and size from inner ones, 10--12 mm wide; peduncle 12--14 cm.

sterile pistil with clavate gynophore, apex slightly inflated, ca. 2 mm, sterile pistil and tepals length ca. 2: 3 or equal to 3: 2.

A floret had 4 tepals and 4 stamens, and each stamen had 4 pollen sacs.

Leaf blade consistently peltate, with 2- or 3-angular lobes; staminate tepals 2 or 4.

Tepals 5, yellow, oblong, 2-2. 5 mm, glabrous, with some veins extending to mucros.

Tepals 4 or 5, ovate or oblong, membranous or papery, lanose, with only 1 vein.

outer tepals ovate, smaller, ca. as long as or slightly shorter than above joint portion of pedicel;

Tepals yellow-white or green-white, obovate-elliptic or broadly elliptic;

Female flowers: outer tepals elliptic, reflexed in fruit;

Stamens as many as and opposite tepals, free or filaments inserted on tepals;

3 outer tepals and 2 inner ones united into a compound tepal ;

Perianth persistent, tepals 6, becoming enlarged and often hardened in fruit;

outer tepals 2, reflexed in fruit, oblong-ovate, ca. as long as or shorter than above-joint portion of pedicel;

Female flowers: outer tepals reflexed in fruit;

Stamens equal in number to tepals; filaments erect or apically incurved;

Female flowers: tepals ovate or ovate-elliptic, ca. 3 mm, margin scarious;

Tepals purple-red or rose purple, with deep red spots;

Tepals dark pink, with white margins;

Staminate flower: tepals 2 or 4 and decussate, usually outer ones larger, inner ones smaller;

tepals imbricate, ovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 2-3 mm, glabrous;

pedicel articulate. Tepals 6, free. Stamens 6, inserted at base of tepals;

tepals 4, divided into inner and outer series;

Tepals light purple, with purple spots, often whitish yellow at base, ca. 2. 2 cm;

Tepals white; compound tepal ca. 5 cm, apex 3-lobed, lobes free or laxly coherent;

tepals 6, ovate, ca. 2 mm, obtuse-acute or cucullate, ciliolate;

Pistillate flowers: tepals 3, rarely 4, outer 2 pink, orbicular, glabrous;

Tepals unequal, outer 2 lanceolate, ca. 5 mm, 3-veined below, rigid after anthesis, midvein stretching into spines;

tepals oblong, cuspidate at apex, outer ca. 3 X 2 mm;

tepals oblong or obovate-oblong, 4. 5-5 mm, scarious, glabrous;

Pistillate flowers: tepals 4 (from protologue, requiring confirmation), white, outer 2 broadly ovate, 8-10 mm, inner 2 oblong;

tepals 9, white, outer 3 thinly leathery, oblong-elliptic, 6-7 cm long, inner 2 whorls smaller, usually fleshy, obovate, 5-6 cm long;