| Plant height | 10−25 cm | 8−15 cm | 10−31 |
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| Perigon diameter | 5−7 cm | 3−5 cm | 7−8 cm |
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| Perigon colour | creamy or whitish ground colour largely veined and edged by golden brown | brownish and yellowish ground colour heavily veined by darker brown lines | yellow or purplish violet with indistinct veins (not markedly) |
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| Leaves | strongly falcate, crinkled, greyish green and inconspicuously membranous margin | erect, more or less bent in some longer leaves, smooth greyish green and vividly membranous edge | Falcate, inner ± erect, lettuce green, smoothly membranous margin |
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| Leaves number | 4−7 | 4 | 4−6 |
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| Spathe valves | lanceolate, green with brownish veins often purplish | swollen and acuminate, green | oblong and slender, green often purplish |
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| Spathe valves length | 4−7 cm | 4−5.5 cm (not longer) | 4−9 cm |
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| Fall shape | obovate, obtuse or sometimes sharply acute, often revolute at apex, curled | blunt elliptic with inconspicuous wings at where reflexed back, crenulate edge but barely curled only at the base | elliptic to obovate, rounded to obtuse or subacute, only sometimes reflexed back, often curled |
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| Hair | usually yellow hairs rarely with coloured tips, diffuse | densely long white hairs, compact and monotonous | purple or yellow or white, sometimes with coloured tips, diffuse |
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| Signal spot | large darker brown or brown- purplish spot in centre | large purple spot in centre merged by the ground colour in the upper half of falls | not very obvious, very small blackish or just darker than the rest of the blade |
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| Standard shape | obovate, obtuse to rounded at apex, undulate | spatulate, crenate edge, undulate | obovate to elliptic or orbicular, more or less undulate |
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