Flora of North America species comparison

yellow-orange, medium.

yellow-orange, slender to medium.

dense to loose, spiciform or paniculiform, commonly originating endogenously;

bracts at base of clusters 1 or 2, at base of pedicels and/or flowers 0 or 1, ovate, membranous, margins entire or serrulate, apex obtuse to acute.

loose, umbelliform or corymbiform;

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

0–1 mm.

0.8–4(–5) mm, sometimes papillate.

(3 or)4(or 5)-merous, 2–3 mm, membranous, not papillate;

calyx yellow-brown, shallowly cupulate, 1/2 corolla tube length, divided 2/3 its length, not reticulate, not shiny, lobes oblong-ovate, bases slightly overlapping, margins entire or serrulate, midvein not carinate, apex obtuse;

corolla white, drying creamy white, 1.8–2.8 mm, tube cylindric-campanulate to cylindric, 1.1–2.2 mm, not saccate, lobes spreading, ovate, 1/3–1/2 corolla tube length, margins entire, apex obtuse, straight;

infrastaminal scales oblong, rounded, 0.9–1.7 mm, shorter than to equaling corolla tube length, bridged at 0.2–0.4 mm, sparsely fimbriate, more densely distally, fimbriae 0.1–0.3 mm;

stamens included to slightly exserted, equaling corolla lobes;

filaments 0.2–0.4 mm;

anthers 0.2–0.4 × 0.2–0.4 mm;

styles filiform or narrowly terete, (0.6–)1–2 mm, equaling or longer than ovary.

5-merous, 2.5–3.5(–4) mm, membranous, papillate on perianth, ovary, and capsule;

calyx reddish brown, cupulate, shorter than or equaling corolla tube length, divided 1/2–2/3 its length, ± reticulate, shiny, lobes triangular, bases not overlapping, margins entire, midvein sometimes ± carinate, base of calyx corresponding to each lobe with reflexed spurlike projection 0.1–0.6 mm, apex obtuse to subacute;

corolla white, drying reddish brown, 2.2–3.5 mm, tube campanulate-globose, 1.1–1.8 mm, saccate between lines of stamen attachments, lobes reflexed, triangular-ovate to lanceolate, equaling corolla tube length, margins entire, apex acute to acuminate, inflexed;

infrastaminal scales obovate to spatulate, 1.1–2 mm, equaling corolla tube length, bridged at 0.2–0.4 mm, rounded, uniformly densely fimbriate, fimbriae 0.3–0.7 mm;

stamens exserted, shorter than corolla lobes;

filaments 0.4–0.6 mm;

anthers 0.4–0.6 × 0.4–0.5 mm;

styles filiform, 0.9–1.8 mm, equaling or longer than ovary.

depressed-globose to globose, 2.5–3.2(–4) × 2–4 mm, not thickened or raised around relatively small interstylar aperture, not translucent, capped by withered corolla, indehiscent.

depressed-globose, 1.6–3 × 2–3.4 mm, not thickened or raised around relatively large interstylar aperture, not translucent, 1/2+ enveloped by withered corolla, indehiscent.

1 or 2, obcompressed, broadly ovoid, 1.4–2 × 1.3–1.4 mm, hilum region terminal.

4, angled, ovoid to broadly ellipsoid, 0.9–1.4 × 0.8–1.1 mm, hilum region subterminal.

= 60.