Flora of North America species comparison

and leaf scales present.

and leaf scales absent.

connate at base, obovate-oblanceolate to spatulate, 1.5–3.9 × 0.8–1.4(–1.5) mm, 2+-veined.

not connate at base, ± linear, tapering from base, (7–)7.6–11.5 × 0.9–1.4 mm, 1-veined.

bracts absent.

bracts absent.

0.4–0.6 mm in fruit.

0 mm in fruit.

usually solitary or 1 staminate and 1 pistillate opposed by 1 pistillate;

styles deflexed;

pollen yellow.

solitary;

styles erect, later recurved;

pollen colorless.

(0.5–)0.6–0.7(–0.8) × (0.5–)0.8–1 mm, shorter than wide;

mericarps black, not swollen, winged only at apex, wings straight, 0.01–0.03 mm wide.

1.1–1.9 × 1.2–2.4 mm, shorter than or as long as wide, sometimes longer than wide;

mericarps dark brown, not swollen, winged throughout, wings straight, 0.2–0.8 mm wide, as wide as or wider than mericarp body.

= 10.

= 6.