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| Scientific | Lead Number | Lead Position | Lead Characteristics | Lead Characteristics with Glossary | Line result key id | Line result taxon id | result text |
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Phegopteris | Rachis wings absent between the two basal pinna pairs; frond blade longer than wide; basalmost pinnae 4-5× as long as wide; rachis bearing on its lower surface numerous tan to brown, lanceolate scales (these mostly 6-12 cells wide at the base) and acicular hairs 0.3-1.0 mm long. | ||||||
Pecluma | Petiole and rachis lacking scales, but with acicular hairs and minute comblike hairs; veins (1-) 2-4-forked; sori surrounded by an oblong patch of erect hairs; segments at base of blade gradually reduced to auricles; [usually terrestrial] | ||||||
Pecluma | Petiole and/or rachis with ovate to lanceolate scales (and also often with additional vestiture of acicular hairs, septate hairs, or minute comblike hairs); veins 1-2-forked; sori without a patch of erect hairs; segments at base of blade abruptly reduced in size; [usually epiphytic or epipetric]. | ||||||
Juniperus | Leaves flat-acicular or grooved, 8-25 mm long, never scale-like, with a white stomatal band on the upper surface and an abscission zone at the base; leaves borne in whorls of 3, spreading at 45-90 degrees from the twig; female cones ("berries") axillary, maturing in 2-3 years; [section Juniperus or genus Juniperus] | Leaves flat-acicular or grooved, 8-25 mm long, never scale-like, with a white stomatal band on the upper surface and an abscission zone at the base; leaves borne in whorls of 3, spreading at 45-90 degrees from the twig; female cones ("berries") axillary, maturing in 2-3 years; [section Juniperus or genus Juniperus] | |||||
Juniperus | Leaves flat-acicular or grooved, 8-25 mm long, never scale-like, with a white stomatal band on the upper surface and an abscission zone at the base; leaves borne in whorls of 3, spreading at 45-90 degrees from the twig; female cones ("berries") axillary, maturing in 2-3 years; [section Juniperus or genus Juniperus] | Leaves flat-acicular or grooved, 8-25 mm long, never scale-like, with a white stomatal band on the upper surface and an abscission zone at the base; leaves borne in whorls of 3, spreading at 45-90 degrees from the twig; female cones ("berries") axillary, maturing in 2-3 years; [section Juniperus or genus Juniperus] | |||||
Juniperus | Leaves primarily scale-like (scale-leaves), ca. 1-2 mm long, though acicular and 2-10 mm long (whip-leaves) are often present on young trees and some lower branches of larger trees, without a white line on the upper surface (though often somewhat glaucous) and lacking an abscission zone at the base; leaves of mature twigs borne in opposite pairs of 2, decussate (thus 4-ranked), appressed to the twig (leaves of immature twigs sometimes in whorls of 3, spreading at 10-45 degrees from the twig); female cones ("berries") terminal on short branches, maturing the first year; [section Sabina or genus Sabina]. | Leaves primarily scale-like (scale-leaves), ca. 1-2 mm long, though acicular and 2-10 mm long (whip-leaves) are often present on young trees and some lower branches of larger trees, without a white line on the upper surface (though often somewhat glaucous) and lacking an abscission zone at the base; leaves of mature twigs borne in opposite pairs of 2, decussate (thus 4-ranked), appressed to the twig (leaves of immature twigs sometimes in whorls of 3, spreading at 10-45 degrees from the twig); female cones ("berries") terminal on short branches, maturing the first year; [section Sabina or genus Sabina]. | |||||
Vicia | Plant conspicuously villous, the hairs spreading and 1-2 mm long; lower calyx lobe acicular or weak, (2-) 3-4 mm long; leaflets 3-6 mm wide | Plant conspicuously villous, the hairs spreading and 1-2 mm long; lower calyx lobe acicular or weak, (2-) 3-4 mm long; leaflets 3-6 mm wide | |||||
Fagus | Leaves denticulate; cupule prickles 1-2.5 (-4) mm long, slightly to strongly recurved; cupule valves generally ovate, the apex obtuse, reddish in color; leaves with fairly dense white acicular trichomes on the lower leaf surface at maturity; leaf base sometimes clearly cordate; [plants of the Coastal Plain, Piedmont, and low to moderate elevations (mostly below 1050 m or 3500 feet) in the Mountains] | Leaves denticulate; cupule prickles 1-2.5 (-4) mm long, slightly to strongly recurved; cupule valves generally ovate, the apex obtuse, reddish in color; leaves with fairly dense white acicular trichomes on the lower leaf surface at maturity; leaf base sometimes clearly cordate; [plants of the Coastal Plain, Piedmont, and low to moderate elevations (mostly below 1050 m or 3500 feet) in the Mountains] | |||||
Fagus | Leaves denticulate; cupule prickles 1-2.5 (-4) mm long, slightly to strongly recurved; cupule valves generally ovate, the apex obtuse, reddish in color; leaves with fairly dense white acicular trichomes on the lower leaf surface at maturity; leaf base sometimes clearly cordate; [plants of the Coastal Plain, Piedmont, and low to moderate elevations (mostly below 1050 m or 3500 feet) in the Mountains] | Leaves denticulate; cupule prickles 1-2.5 (-4) mm long, slightly to strongly recurved; cupule valves generally ovate, the apex obtuse, reddish in color; leaves with fairly dense white acicular trichomes on the lower leaf surface at maturity; leaf base sometimes clearly cordate; [plants of the Coastal Plain, Piedmont, and low to moderate elevations (mostly below 1050 m or 3500 feet) in the Mountains] | |||||
Fagus | Leaves sharply serrate; cupule prickles (3-) 4-10 mm long, projecting forward; cupule valves generally narrowly triangular, the apex acute, grayish-yellow in color; leaves usually lacking white acicular trichomes on the lower surface at maturity, instead with yellowish glandular hairs (acicular trichomes often present on the veins); leaf base not clearly cordate; [plants of moderate to high elevations (mostly above 1050 m or 3500 feet) in the Mountains] | Leaves sharply serrate; cupule prickles (3-) 4-10 mm long, projecting forward; cupule valves generally narrowly triangular, the apex acute, grayish-yellow in color; leaves usually lacking white acicular trichomes on the lower surface at maturity, instead with yellowish glandular hairs (acicular trichomes often present on the veins); leaf base not clearly cordate; [plants of moderate to high elevations (mostly above 1050 m or 3500 feet) in the Mountains] | |||||
Carya | Twigs stout, hardened first-year growth or second-year growth (2.5-) 3-6 mm in diameter; terminal bud 9-18 mm long, tomentose, tan to brown (rarely turning black on drying); lower surface of leaflets moderately to densely hirsute with acicular and fasciculate hairs (sometimes the hairs more or less limited to the main veins), and also moderately lepidote, the large peltate scales yellow and round, the small peltate scales dark brown and mostly round; terminal leaflet (4-) 6-15 cm wide | Twigs stout, hardened first-year growth or second-year growth (2.5-) 3-6 mm in diameter; terminal bud 9-18 mm long, tomentose, tan to brown (rarely turning black on drying); lower surface of leaflets moderately to densely hirsute with acicular and fasciculate hairs (sometimes the hairs more or less limited to the main veins), and also moderately lepidote, the large peltate scales yellow and round, the small peltate scales dark brown and mostly round; terminal leaflet (4-) 6-15 cm wide | |||||
Carya | Twigs stout; terminal buds 8-20 mm long; leaves with (5-) 7-9 (-11) leaflets; lower surface of leaflets moderately to densely hirsute with a mixture of acicular (single), fascicled (2-8 rays), and multiradiate (8-many rays) hairs; small peltate scales of the lower surface of leaflets all round; fruit husk 4-13 mm thick; nuts slightly to strongly 4-angled toward the apex. | Twigs stout; terminal buds 8-20 mm long; leaves with (5-) 7-9 (-11) leaflets; lower surface of leaflets moderately to densely hirsute with a mixture of acicular (single), fascicled (2-8 rays), and multiradiate (8-many rays) hairs; small peltate scales of the lower surface of leaflets all round; fruit husk 4-13 mm thick; nuts slightly to strongly 4-angled toward the apex. | |||||
Carya | Bark shaggy; petiole hirtellous; leaflet apex acuminate; lower surface of leaflets hirsute with acicular (single), 2-6-rayed fascicled, and occasional multiradiate hairs; fruit husk pubescent, lacking pustulate bumps; fruit 4-7 cm long; nut 3-6 cm long; [rare southward] | ||||||
Carya | Bark tight; petiole hirsute; leaflet apex acute; lower surface of leaflets densely hirsute with acicular (single) and abundant 2-8-rayed fascicled and multiradiate hairs; fruit husk glabrous, with pustulate bumps; fruit 3.5-5 cm long; nut 2.5-3.5 cm long; [common southward] | ||||||
Carya | Twigs slender; terminal buds 3-15 mm long; leaves with 3-7 (-9) leaflets; lower surface of leaflets mostly glabrous, except for along the midrib and primary veins, and sometimes hirsute on the surface with acicular (single) and infrequent fascicled (2-8 rays) hairs (lacking multiradiate trichomes); small peltate scales of the lower surface of leaflets of various types, 4-lobed and/or irregular scales often more frequent than round scales; fruit husk 2-5 mm thick; nuts either 4-angled or not toward the apex. | Twigs slender; terminal buds 3-15 mm long; leaves with 3-7 (-9) leaflets; lower surface of leaflets mostly glabrous, except for along the midrib and primary veins, and sometimes hirsute on the surface with acicular (single) and infrequent fascicled (2-8 rays) hairs (lacking multiradiate trichomes); small peltate scales of the lower surface of leaflets of various types, 4-lobed and/or irregular scales often more frequent than round scales; fruit husk 2-5 mm thick; nuts either 4-angled or not toward the apex. | |||||
Tilia | Lower leaf surfaces puberulent with bulbous glands, acicular trichomes, and (rarely) sparsely scattered stellate trichomes; fruiting peduncles and pedicels glabrous or sometimes puberulent; [generally northern, south to NC and TN] | ||||||
Tilia | Lower leaf surfaces usually tomentose or becoming puberulent, with bulbous glands, acicular trichomes, and a predominance of stellate or fasciculate trichomes; fruiting peduncles and pedicels stellate-tomentulose (becoming puberulent in age); [collectively widespread in our area]. | Lower leaf surfaces usually tomentose or becoming puberulent, with bulbous glands, acicular trichomes, and a predominance of stellate or fasciculate trichomes; fruiting peduncles and pedicels stellate-tomentulose (becoming puberulent in age); [collectively widespread in our area]. | |||||
Cistaceae | Shrub, usually much branched from the lower stem; flowers solitary, terminal on the branches; leaves 1-3 mm long and scalelike, or 3-7 mm long and acicular; capsule cylindric, > 2× as long as wide | ||||||
Eryngium | Plant glaucous; marginal bristles acicular; flowering early | ||||||
Plantae | Leaf vestiture nearly lacking (if present, not of unicellular acicular hairs or gland-tipped hairs) | ||||||
Plantae | Leaf vestiture of unicellular acicular hairs 0.2-1 mm long intermixed with short-stalked or sessile yellowish glands | ||||||
Plantae | Leaves 25-65 cm wide, with whitish, straight, acicular hairs; [species adventive and weedy] | ||||||
Plantae | Leaves 25-65 cm wide, with whitish, straight, acicular, septate hairs; [species adventive and weedy] | ||||||
Plantae | Leaves scale-like or acicular and <16 mm long; mature cones either dry and cone-like, or fleshy and < 12 mm in diameter | ||||||
Plantae | Leaves 1-7 mm long, either acicular and spreading or ovate and appressed to the stems | ||||||
Plantae | Plant a creeping subshrub (keyed here as a failsafe); leaves either 0.2-0.8 cm long and acicular, or 2-10 cm long and broadly ovate or elliptic. | ||||||
Plantae | Leaves 0.2-0.8 cm long and acicular | Leaves 0.2-0.8 cm long and acicular | |||||
Plantae | Vestiture of the lower leaf surface in part of stellate hairs (and also of simple acicular hairs and gland-tipped hairs); plants monoecious, the male flowers in yellow to brownish catkins, the female flowers solitary or in small spikes; fruit a nut in a cupule (an acorn) | ||||||
Trichomanes | Involucre conic, widely flared at apex, 1.5 × 1.3 mm; sporangial receptacle 2-4 mm long; laminar margins glabrous, rarely with minute, clavate trichomes; stipe alate throughout, this conspicuous in upper ½ (to 2 mm long); stipe to 1.5 cm long; blade to 6.5 cm long; laminar indumentum sparse throughout; hairs miniscule if single-celled, often 2-celled with clavate distal cell, or 3-4 celled, these acicular with all cells similar, never atop a distinctly bulbous basal cell; rachis wings generally twice the width of rachis | Involucre conic, widely flared at apex, 1.5 × 1.3 mm; sporangial receptacle 2-4 mm long; laminar margins glabrous, rarely with minute, clavate trichomes; stipe alate throughout, this conspicuous in upper ½ (to 2 mm long); stipe to 1.5 cm long; blade to 6.5 cm long; laminar indumentum sparse throughout; hairs miniscule if single-celled, often 2-celled with clavate distal cell, or 3-4 celled, these acicular with all cells similar, never atop a distinctly bulbous basal cell; rachis wings generally twice the width of rachis | |||||
Trichomanes | Involucre conic, widely flared at apex, 1.5 × 1.3 mm; sporangial receptacle 2-4 mm long; laminar margins glabrous, rarely with minute, clavate trichomes; stipe alate throughout, this conspicuous in upper ½ (to 2 mm long); stipe to 1.5 cm long; blade to 6.5 cm long; laminar indumentum sparse throughout; hairs miniscule if single-celled, often 2-celled with clavate distal cell, or 3-4 celled, these acicular with all cells similar, never atop a distinctly bulbous basal cell; rachis wings generally twice the width of rachis | Involucre conic, widely flared at apex, 1.5 × 1.3 mm; sporangial receptacle 2-4 mm long; laminar margins glabrous, rarely with minute, clavate trichomes; stipe alate throughout, this conspicuous in upper ½ (to 2 mm long); stipe to 1.5 cm long; blade to 6.5 cm long; laminar indumentum sparse throughout; hairs miniscule if single-celled, often 2-celled with clavate distal cell, or 3-4 celled, these acicular with all cells similar, never atop a distinctly bulbous basal cell; rachis wings generally twice the width of rachis | |||||
Trichomanes | Involucre conic, widely flared at apex, 1.5 × 1.3 mm; sporangial receptacle 2-4 mm long; laminar margins glabrous, rarely with minute, clavate trichomes; stipe alate throughout, this conspicuous in upper ½ (to 2 mm long); stipe to 1.5 cm long; blade to 6.5 cm long; laminar indumentum sparse throughout; hairs miniscule if single-celled, often 2-celled with clavate distal cell, or 3-4 celled, these acicular with all cells similar, never atop a distinctly bulbous basal cell; rachis wings generally twice the width of rachis | Involucre conic, widely flared at apex, 1.5 × 1.3 mm; sporangial receptacle 2-4 mm long; laminar margins glabrous, rarely with minute, clavate trichomes; stipe alate throughout, this conspicuous in upper ½ (to 2 mm long); stipe to 1.5 cm long; blade to 6.5 cm long; laminar indumentum sparse throughout; hairs miniscule if single-celled, often 2-celled with clavate distal cell, or 3-4 celled, these acicular with all cells similar, never atop a distinctly bulbous basal cell; rachis wings generally twice the width of rachis |
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