Abolboda

<<<<Inflorescences>Bracts>Shape>Apex>Texture

stiff1

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<<<<Sepals>Ovary>Style>Appendages>Appendage number

2-32

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<<<<Sepals>Ovary>Style>Appendages>Growth form

usually pendent3

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<<<<Sepals>Ovary>Style>Appendages>Shape

claviform (to filamentous, rarely bifid)4

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<<<<Sepals>Ovary>Style>Stigma branches>Shape

usually distally dilated and flattened stigma branches, these variously divided or connivent, mostly lacero-fimbriate5

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<<<<Sepals>Ovary>Style>Stigma branches>Stigma branch number

36

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<<<<Sepals>Stamens>Anthers>Connective>Shape

flattened7

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<<<Capsules>Seeds>Shape>Length

0.5-1 mm long8

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<<<Capsules>Valves>Shape>Texture

smooth9

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<<<Inflorescences>Bracts>Shape>Apex

frequently apically produced to a mucro, cusp or seta10

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<<<Inflorescences>Spikes>Leaves>Growth form

erect11

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<<<Inflorescences>Spikes>Leaves>Leaf pair number

1 or more pairs12

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<<<Sepals>Corolla>Lobes>Colour

blue to white or violet13

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<<<Sepals>Corolla>Tube>Shape

variously elongate14

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<<<Sepals>Ovary>Ovules>Ovule number

numerous15

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<<<Sepals>Ovary>Style>Appendages

bearing , less often ascending, appendages at or near base16

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<<<Sepals>Ovary>Style>Shape

typically elongate17

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<<<Sepals>Ovary>Style>Stigma branches

apically with ,18

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<<<Sepals>Stamens>Anthers>Connective

on a broadened, connective19

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<<<Sepals>Stamens>Anthers>Shape

mostly narrow20

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<<<Sepals>Stamens>Filaments>Position

adnate near base of petal blades21

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<<<Sepals>Stamens>Filaments>Relative dimensions

shorter or longer than anthers22

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<<<Sepals>Stamens>Filaments>Shape

flat or terete23

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<<Capsules>Seeds>Shape

mostly tumid and irregularly obovoid, , short-apiculate or umbilicate, the broad body dark, spirally-longitudinally coarsely ribbed, frequently with strong, irregular cross-ridges24

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<<Capsules>Valves>Shape

firm and mostly much thickened at the crested, lobed, or toothed, to papillose apex25

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<<Capsules>Valves>Valve number

326

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<<Habit>Buds>Position

axillary27

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<<Inflorescences>Bracts>Shape

lanciform-navicular with a thickened dorsal area and broad, mostly entire, scarious margins,28

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<<Inflorescences>Spikes>Leaves

usually with of subopposite, sessile, , bract-like leaves29

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<<Inflorescences>Spikes>Position

sessile or more often terminal on a scape (rarely a terminal cluster)30

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<<Leaves>Blade>Shape

linear-triangular to linear, flat to thickened, angled or lingulate, the tip frequently excentrically or symmetrically aristate or conic-subulate31

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<<Sepals>Corolla>Lobes

lobes equal, broad, ;32

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<<Sepals>Corolla>Shape

salverform33

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<<Sepals>Corolla>Tube

tube ,34

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<<Sepals>Lateral sepals>Shape

often similar to bracts but thinner with narrow, thickened, curvate-keeled (at least apically) back35

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<<Sepals>Ovary>Locule number

trilocular36

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<<Sepals>Ovary>Ovules

ovules ,37

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<<Sepals>Ovary>Placentation

placentation axile,38

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<<Sepals>Ovary>Style

style , , .39

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<<Sepals>Stamens>Anthers

anthers , with locule bases variously divergent ;40

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<<Sepals>Stamens>Filaments

filaments , , ,41

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<<Sepals>Stamens>Stamen number

342

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<<Sepals>Staminodes>Staminode number

0-343

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<Capsules>Seeds

seeds44

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<Capsules>Valves

with valves45

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<Habit>Buds

buds46

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<Habit>Rhizome

perennating by rhizomes47

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<Habit>Roots

with fibrous roots48

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<Inflorescences>Bracts

bracts paired at spike base, spirally arranged upward, or all spirally set, all fertile or the lowermost sterile, mostly glumaceous, usually rigid, .49

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<Inflorescences>Flower number

a single sessile flower or a 2- or more-flowered spike50

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<Inflorescences>Spikes

this ,51

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<Leaves>Blade

blades52

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<Sepals>Corolla

corolla ,53

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<Sepals>Inner sepals

the third (inner) sepal reduced or lacking54

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<Sepals>Lateral sepals

the laterals , subopposite55

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<Sepals>Ovary

ovary ,56

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<Sepals>Sepal number

2-357

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<Sepals>Stamens

stamens ,58

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<Sepals>Staminodes

staminodes ;59

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Capsules

Capsule ;60

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Description

Coarse to low and moss-like, perennial or annual, caulescent to acaulescent rosulate herbs with fibrous roots and perennating by rhizomes or axillary buds. Principal foliage leaves with broadly clasping sheaths, blades linear-triangular to linear, flat to thickened, angled or lingulate, the tip frequently excentrically or symmetrically aristate or conic-subulate. Inflorescences consisting of a single sessile flower or a 2- or more-flowered spike, this sessile or more often terminal on a scape (rarely a terminal cluster), usually with 1 or more pairs of subopposite, sessile, erect, bract-like leaves; bracts paired at spike base, spirally arranged upward, or all spirally set, all fertile or the lowermost sterile, mostly glumaceous, usually rigid, lanciform-navicular with a thickened dorsal area and broad, mostly entire, scarious margins, frequently apically produced to a stiff mucro, cusp or seta. Sepals 2-3, the laterals often similar to bracts but thinner with narrow, thickened, curvate-keeled (at least apically) back, subopposite, the third (inner) sepal reduced or lacking; corolla salverform, tube variously elongate, lobes equal, broad, blue to white or violet; stamens 3, filaments adnate near base of petal blades, shorter or longer than anthers, flat or terete, anthers mostly narrow, with locule bases variously divergent on a broadened, flattened connective; staminodes 0-3; ovary trilocular, placentation axile, ovules numerous, style typically elongate, bearing 2-3usually pendent, less often ascending, claviform (to filamentous, rarely bifid) appendages at or near base, apically with 3, usually distally dilated and flattened stigma branches, these variously divided or connivent, mostly lacero-fimbriate. Capsule with 3 valves firm and mostly much thickened at the crested, lobed, or toothed, smooth to papillose apex; seeds mostly tumid and irregularly obovoid, 0.5-1 mm long, short-apiculate or umbilicate, the broad body dark, spirally-longitudinally coarsely ribbed, frequently with strong, irregular cross-ridges

Distribution

Guianas present, Neotropics present

About 20 species, confined to the Neotropics; 6(-7) species in the Guianas.

Habit

Coarse to low and moss-like, perennial or annual, caulescent to acaulescent rosulate herbs and or .61

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Inflorescences

Inflorescences consisting of , ;62

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Leaves

Principal foliage leaves with broadly clasping sheaths, .63

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Sepals

Sepals , , ;64

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