flexuous

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Crown of 5 free membranaceous leaflets, which are truncate or obscurely lobed at the apex, where they bear a pair of flexuous awns united at base.

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Leaves.—Few; linear-lanceolate; the radical one or two much larger than those of the flexuous or erect stem.

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The epitrochlea is prominent; the epicondyle is surmounted by a well-marked crest, curved and flexuous in outline.

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Parallel, flexuous or diverging fibers, extensible by increase in any or in all directions.

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P. convex, equal, yellow, shining, disc depr. brownish, cracked; g. adnate, violet then dingy flesh-colour; s. solid, rather bulbous, flexuous, with yellowish scales, apex naked, tinged violet.

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