Flora of North America species comparison

erect or spreading, glabrous or pubescent distally.

those of adventitious or juvenile shoots often much larger and of different shape from those of normal shoots;

ocrea persistent proximally, deciduous distally, brown or reddish brown, cylindric to funnelform, 3–8 mm, coriaceous proximally, membranous distally, margins oblique, glabrous or densely puberulent;

petiole 5–15 mm, puberulent to pilose;

blade pale green abaxially, green to bluish green adaxially, round to transversely elliptic, (6–)10–20(–27) × 6–20(–27) cm, length equaling or less than width, coriaceous, base cordate, margins sometimes revolute, apex rounded to blunt or emarginate, abaxial surface dull, adaxial surface shiny or dull, minutely punctate, glabrous.

persistent, cauline, alternate, petiolate;

ocrea often deciduous, membranous to coriaceous;

blade lanceolate to round or transversely elliptic, margins entire.

10–30 cm, puberulent or glabrous, pistillate pendent in fruit;

peduncle 1–5 cm, glabrous.

terminal, racemelike, pedunculate.

1–4 mm, glabrous.

present.

tepals round to broadly elliptic, margins entire, apex obtuse.

functionally unisexual, some plants having only staminate flowers, others with only pistillate flowers, base stipelike;

perianth white or greenish white, campanulate, glabrous;

tepals 5, connate proximally, sepaloid, monomorphic.

1–7 per ocreate fascicle.

1–7 per ocreate fascicle, perianth nonaccrescent;

stamens 8;

filaments connate at base, adnate to perianth, glabrous;

anthers white or bluish white, elliptic to round;

pistil rudimentary.

tube obpyriform, 12–20 × 8–12 mm, becoming fleshy.

1 per ocreate fascicle, perianth accrescent and fleshy in fruit;

stamens rudimentary;

styles 3, erect, distinct;

stigmas capitate.

8–11 × 8–10 mm, shiny.

usually included in fleshy perianth tube, brown to black, unwinged, bluntly 3-gonous, glabrous.

embryo straight.

= 11.

= 132.