Flora of North America species comparison

yellow to orange, medium.

yellow, filiform.

dense, corymbiform or glomerulate;

bracts at base of clusters 1, at base of pedicels 0 or 1, ovate or ovate-triangular to lanceolate, membranous, margins entire, apex acute.

dense, glomerulate or corymbiform;

bracts at base of clusters 1, at base of pedicels 0(or 1), ovate, membranous, margins entire, apex acute.

0.3–2.5(–3.5) mm.

0.5–1 mm, papillate.

(4 or)5-merous, 1.9–3.6 mm, membranous, not papillate;

calyx yellow, cupulate, equaling corolla tube length, divided 2/5–3/5 its length, reticulate, shiny, lobes ovate-triangular, bases overlapping, margins entire, midvein not carinate, without multicellular protuberances, apex obtuse to rounded;

corolla creamy white, drying creamy or golden yellow, 2–3.5 mm, tube campanulate, (1.1–)1.5–1.9 mm, not saccate, lobes spreading, triangular to triangular-lanceolate, equaling corolla tube length, margins entire, apex acute to acuminate, inflexed;

infrastaminal scales oblong-ovate to spatulate, rounded, 1.5–2 mm, equaling or exceeding corolla tube length, bridged at 0.3–0.5 mm, uniformly densely fimbriate, fimbriae 0.3–0.4(–0.5) mm;

stamens exserted, shorter than corolla lobes;

filaments 0.4–0.7 mm;

anthers (0.3–)0.4–0.5 × 0.2–0.3 mm;

styles filiform, 0.5–1.6 mm, shorter than to equaling ovary.

5-merous, 2.1–4 mm, slightly fleshy, perianth cells convex, domelike, papillate on corolla, ovary, and capsule;

calyx brownish yellow, campanulate-cupulate, 1/2 corolla tube length, divided 1/2 its length, not reticulate, not shiny, lobes triangular-ovate, bases not overlapping, margins entire, midvein carinate, sometimes with multicellular projections, apex enlarged, each with a hornlike appendage 0.5–0.7 mm;

corolla creamy white, drying brownish, 1.8–3.5 mm, tube campanulate-urceolate, 1.5–2.5 mm, not saccate, lobes erect, connivent, triangular-ovate, 1/4–1/3 corolla tube length, margins entire, apex acute, inflexed;

infrastaminal scales relatively poorly developed, oblong, 1.3–1.2 mm, 4/5 corolla tube length, bridged at 0.2–0.3 mm, truncate, irregularly dentate or short-fimbriate distally, fimbriae 0.05–0.1 mm;

stamens included, shorter than corolla lobes;

filaments 0.4–0.5 mm;

anthers 0.4–0.7 × 0.3–0.5 mm;

styles filiform, 0.2–0.4 mm, shorter than ovary.

depressed-globose to depressed, 1.3–2.8 × 1.9–3.8 mm, not thickened or raised around relatively large interstylar aperture, sometimes translucent, to 1/3 enveloped by withered corolla, indehiscent.

globose, 1.8–2.5 × 1.9–3 mm, thickened and raised in collar around style base, translucent, surrounded or capped by withered corolla, indehiscent.

4, angled, subglobose to broadly ellipsoid, 1.1–1.5 × 0.9–1.1 mm, hilum region subterminal.

3 or 4, shape heterogeneous on same plant: obcompressed to weakly angled, broadly ellipsoid to transversely oblique, 1.3–1.6 × 1.2–1.4 mm, hilum region subterminal.

= 56.