OregonFlora species comparison

erect, sometimes decumbent, branched, ribbed and striate.

alternate above; opposite at least below;

blades lanceolate to linear-lanceolate; lower leaves triangular-ovate or ovate-hastate, 2–10 × 1–5(6.5) cm, green on both surfaces, red to yellowish at base; thick to succulent, bases broadly cuneate to truncate;

margins entire or minutely dentate or wavy;

tips acute or obtuse, green to somewhat red;

surfaces glabrous to sparsely scaly;

petioles 0–2(3) cm; upper leaves often sessile.

clusters of short; axillary or terminal spikes; leafless except at base, staminate and pistillate flowers usually intermixed.

perianths 5-parted.

perianths absent, enclosed by 2 fruiting bracteoles.

dimorphic, 1–2 mm; black; shiny or 1.8–3 mm, brown.

broadly triangular-hastate to ovate, inflated and spongy;

margins few-toothed;

tips acute;

faces smooth or with 2 tubercles, sessile.

=36, 54.