Flora of North America species comparison

1–3, erect to ascending, unbranched, very stout, 100–150 cm, densely hirsute, not glaucous, rhizomes absent(?).

solitary, erect to ascending, unbranched (rarely), (10–)20–125 cm, puberulent with curved trichomes, not glaucous, rhizomes absent.

opposite, petiolate, with 1 stipular colleter on each side of petiole;

petiole 1–5 mm, hirsute;

blade oval or oblong to ovate, 7–22 × 3–14 cm, subsucculent, base truncate to subcordate, margins entire, apex obtuse to truncate or emarginate, mucronate, venation brochidodromous, secondary veins nearly orthogonal, surfaces hirsute, margins ciliate, 8–16 laminar colleters.

opposite to subopposite, sessile or petiolate, with 1 or 2 stipular colleters on each side of petiole and also in axil;

petiole 0–5 mm, puberulent with curved trichomes;

blade linear to broadly oval or nearly orbiculate, 2–13 × 0.8–6 cm, chartaceous, base cuneate to rounded, margins entire or crisped, apex acute or obtuse to truncate or emarginate, mucronate, venation brochidodromous, surfaces sparsely pilosulous to glabrate, margins ciliate, laminar colleters absent.

terminal, paired, and extra-axillary, pedunculate, 21–53-flowered;

peduncle 6–13 cm, densely hirsute, with 1 caducous bract at the base of each pedicel.

extra-axillary at upper nodes, sometimes branched at peduncle apex, sessile or pedunculate, 22–60-flowered;

peduncle 0–4 cm, puberulent with curved trichomes to pilosulous, with 1 caducous bract at the base of each pedicel.

13–22 mm, densely hirsute.

7–13 mm, pilosulous.

erect to pendent;

calyx lobes lanceolate, 3.5–6 mm, apex acute, hirsute;

corolla cream to greenish cream or ochroleucous, sometimes tinged pink, lobes reflexed with spreading tips, elliptic, 9–11 mm, apex acute, glabrous;

gynostegial column 0.5–1 mm;

fused anthers greenish brown, cylindric, 2.5–3 mm, wings right-triangular, closed, apical appendages oval;

corona segments cream to ochroleucous, sometimes tinged pink, shiny, subsessile, conduplicate, 6–8 mm, equaling or exceeding style apex, apex truncate, spreading and tapering, glabrous, internal appendage laterally compressed, erect, barely exserted, glabrous;

style apex shallowly depressed, green or pink.

erect to pendent;

calyx lobes narrowly lanceolate, 2–3 mm, apex acute, pilosulous;

corolla green to yellowish green, sometimes tinged red, lobes reflexed, oblong, 5–7 mm, apex acute, inconspicuously pilosulous at apex abaxially, glabrous adaxially;

gynostegium sessile;

fused anthers green, cylindric, 3–4 mm, wings triangular, widest at middle, closed, apical appendages ovate, marginally inflexed, apically deflexed;

corona segments green to cream, sometimes tinged red, sessile, laminar, margins incurved, appressed to column, 3–4 mm, greatly exceeded by style apex, apex obtuse, glabrous, internal appendage absent or obscure, glabrous;

style apex shallowly depressed, green.

ovate, 6–7 × 4–5 mm, margin winged, faces minutely rugulose;

coma 4–4.5 cm.

ovate, 7–8 × 4–5 mm, margin winged, faces minutely rugulose;

coma 2.5–3 cm.

erect on upcurved pedicels, lance-ovoid, 9.5–13.5 × 2–3 cm, apex attenuate, smooth, densely hirsute.

erect on upcurved pedicels, fusiform to lance-ovoid, 6–10 × 1.5–2 cm, apex acuminate to attenuate, smooth, pilosulous.

= 22.