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Seedling
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Leaf: +- densely tomentose, especially abaxially; proximal 1.5--6 dm, spiny-petioled, elliptic to oblanceolate, toothed to deeply lobed, lobes generally rigidly spreading, simple or with 1--2 pairs of coarse teeth or 2 lobes, main spines 3--20 mm; middle and distal smaller, narrower, conspicuously decurrent as spiny wings, distal-most much reduced, often long-acuminate, generally very spiny, spines 4--30 mm.Leaf: +- densely tomentose, especially abaxially; proximal 1.5--6 dm, spiny-petioled, elliptic to oblanceolate, toothed to deeply lobed, lobes generally rigidly spreading, simple or with 1--2 pairs of coarse teeth or 2 lobes, main spines 3--20 mm; middle and distal smaller, narrower, conspicuously decurrent as spiny wings, distal-most much reduced, often long-acuminate, generally very spiny, spines 4--30 mm.
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Seedling
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Leaf: +- densely tomentose, especially abaxially; proximal 1.5--6 dm, spiny-petioled, elliptic to oblanceolate, toothed to deeply lobed, lobes generally rigidly spreading, simple or with 1--2 pairs of coarse teeth or 2 lobes, main spines 3--20 mm; middle and distal smaller, narrower, conspicuously decurrent as spiny wings, distal-most much reduced, often long-acuminate, generally very spiny, spines 4--30 mm.Leaf: +- densely tomentose, especially abaxially; proximal 1.5--6 dm, spiny-petioled, elliptic to oblanceolate, toothed to deeply lobed, lobes generally rigidly spreading, simple or with 1--2 pairs of coarse teeth or 2 lobes, main spines 3--20 mm; middle and distal smaller, narrower, conspicuously decurrent as spiny wings, distal-most much reduced, often long-acuminate, generally very spiny, spines 4--30 mm.
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Seedling
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Inflorescence: heads in loose to crowded flat-topped or panicle-like clusters (occasionally on short axillary branches); peduncle leafy, 0--10 cm; involucre 1.5--2.5 cm, 1.5--2 cm diam, +- ovoid, +- loosely tomentose, becoming glabrous; phyllaries graduated, ovate (outer) to lance-ovate (middle), appressed, midribs often with sticky-resinous ridge, tip-spines 3--7 mm, ascending or spreading.
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