1	"Styles 5-7 mm long, much longer than the stigmas; tepals 6-10 mm long; flowers usually in dense, rarely spaced, silvery white or pink-tinged spikes;"	"Celosia argentea"
1	"Styles short, shorter than or subeqalling the stigmas; tepals shorter than 6 mm; flowers in thyrses"	2
2	"Tepals shortly mucronate with excurrent midribs, pale, membranous with a slightly more opaque central vitta; upper inflorescences not forming a broad, terminal panicles"	"Celosia trigyna"
2	"Tepals not mucronate, more or less cucullate, in the dry state with pale margins and a dark brown or backlish central vitta; upper inflorescences forming broad, terminal panicles"	"Celosia polystachia"