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  • Flowers ± 30-400 in each dense, generally spherical capitulum
  • Stamens much exserted and very prominent at anthesis
 002
b
  • Flowers usually not in dense, generally spherical capitula, or if rather dense then some 20 or less per capitulum
  • Stamens mostly included, not prominent at anthesis
 002
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  • Leaves petiolate, soft-textured and easily bent at base
  • Flowers with 1 or 2 styles
 Berzelia
b
  • Leaves sessile, hard-textured and inflexible at base
  • Flowers with 2 styles (includes Nebelia)
 Brunia
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  • Anther with a pale, apical, sterile lobe
  • Thecae divergent by ± 30-45°
  • Petals stiffly erect
 Linconia
b
  • Apical lobe absent
  • Thecae scarcely divergent
  • Petals pliant and often spreading
 002
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  • Each flower in a spikelet solitary and terminal in an involucre of bracts at the end of a short stipe
  • Spikelets on a peduncle 4-150 mm long
  • Old stipes persistent (includes Tittmannia)
 Audouinia
b
  • Flowers, if solitary, then lacking a persistent stipe on a peduncle
 002
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  • Flowers in a spike
  • Petals and filaments connate into a tube at least a quarter of length of corolla
  • Ovary locules dorsiventral to oblique to the bract stem plane
 Lonchostoma
b
  • Flowers solitary, or in capitula or panicles
  • Tube sometimes formed by light adnation of corolla and filaments
  • Ovary locules collateral
 002
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  • Each flower solitary and terminal on a branch with ± 6-30 bracts
  • Bracteoles absent
  • Petals clawed
 Thamnea
b
  • Flowers grouped in panicles or capitula
  • Bracteoles present
  • Petals not clawed
 002
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  • Flowers in racemose or cymose panicles
  • Leaves of a plant often prominently varying in size
  • Sepals without apiculi
 Pseudobaeckea
b
  • Flowers in dense capitula
  • Leaves of a plant with limited variation in size
  • Sepals usually with a dark apiculus
 002
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  • Petioles absent to vestigial
  • Leaves abaxially generally smoothly rounded
  • Capitula usually lacking cream-white radiating bracts (includes Mniothamnea)
 Raspalia
b
  • Petioles slender
  • Leaves abaxially deeply keeled
  • Capitula with cream-white radiating bracts
 Staavia

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