Flora of North America species comparison

erect, rarely decumbent, glabrous or papillose to hispidulous, especially distally.

cauline, alternate or pseudoverticillate in 2–5(–6) whorls;

petiole present;

blade maculate or not, lanceolate, elliptic-lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate, ovate, lanceolate-oblong, oblanceolate, elliptic, or spatulate, coriaceous, margins entire, serrulate, serrate, or crenate-serrate, revolute, surfaces glabrous or papillose.

petiole 5–8 mm, channeled adaxially, glabrous or papillose;

blade not maculate or, sometimes, maculate, dull and light green abaxially, glossy and green adaxially, lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate to ovate or lanceolate-oblong, (6–)10–55 × 4.5–25 mm, base obtuse or acute or decurrent, margins entire or serrulate to serrate, apex acute.

corymbs or subumbels, rarely solitary flowers, not lax in bud or flower, erect in fruit, (symmetric);

peduncular bracts absent;

inflorescence bracts adnate to pedicels, sometimes scarcely so.

1–3-flowered;

peduncle 1 per stem, 2–5 cm, papillose to hispidulous;

inflorescence bracts broadly ovate to broadly obovate, free portions shorter than to nearly as long as pedicels from which they arise, 2–7 × 2–7.5 mm, membranous, margins erose-denticulate.

erect in fruit, (glabrous or papillose to hispidulous);

bracteoles absent.

6–12 mm.

radially symmetric, nodding or spreading;

sepals 5, connate proximally, often obscurely so, calyx lobes ovate, broadly ovate, or suborbiculate;

petals 5, distinct, white, pink, or rose, often tinged violet, without basal tubercles, (surfaces glabrous), corolla rotate to crateriform or broadly crateriform;

intrastaminal nectary disc present;

stamens 10, included;

filaments broad proximally, abruptly narrowed medially, slender distally, dilated basal portions ciliate or villous to densely villous;

anthers oblong, without awns, with tubules, dehiscent by 2 crescent-shaped to round pores;

pistil 5-carpellate;

ovary imperfectly 5-locular;

placentation intruded-parietal;

style (included), straight, expanded distally;

stigma entire or obscurely 5-ridged, without subtending ring of hairs.

calyx lobes spreading or reflexed in fruit, green with margins hyaline or whitish green, ovate to suborbiculate, (3–)5–6.5 × 2.2–4.5 mm, margins erose-denticulate, apex rounded to obtuse;

petals white, often suffused with pink, orbiculate, 5–7 × 4.5–8 mm, margins entire or erose-denticulate;

stamens 4.2–7 mm;

filament base 0.8–1.3 mm wide, dilated basal portion ciliate to villous;

anthers 2.2–3.1 mm, thecae yellowish or tan to pinkish, tubules tan or pinkish, 0.7–1.1 mm, abruptly narrowed from thecae, lateral walls not touching, pores 0.1–0.2 × 0.1–0.2 mm;

ovary papillose in lines;

style 0.3–0.6 mm;

stigma 1.6–2.2(–2.8) mm wide.

capsular, erect, dehiscence loculicidal, no cobwebby tissue exposed by splitting valves at dehiscence.

depressed-globose, 4–5 × 5–6 mm.

ca. 1000, fusiform, winged.

= 13.

= 26.