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 | | Leaves are oblong-lanceaolate, acute tips, dentate or serrate margins with rather sharp teeth, dark green above and lighter below, sometimes with pubescence on the underside. |
 | | Flowers: Monoecious; borne in erect catkins, borne laterally in leaf axils on current season's growth; borne near the base of distally borne catkins, which are bisexual (polygamomonoecious). |
 | | Each female flower contains usually 3 free carpels, each of which can develop into nuts; hence, 1-3 nuts are found within each spiny "bur" (involucre). |
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