Flora of North America species comparison

and leaf scales present.

and leaf scales present.

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

connate at base, spatulate, 2.8–5 × 1.8–3.3 mm, 1+-veined.

bracts absent.

bracts caducous.

0.4–0.6 mm in fruit.

0–25 mm in fruit.

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

styles deflexed;

pollen yellow.

usually 1 staminate and 1 pistillate in 1 axil opposed by 1(+) pistillate;

styles erect and spreading to recurved;

pollen yellow.

(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.

0.9–1.4 × 0.8–1.2 mm, as long as or longer than wide;

mericarps black, not swollen, evenly winged throughout, wings straight, 0.03–0.1 mm wide.

= 10.