Flora of North America species comparison

light yellow, filiform.

dense, glomerulate;

bracts at base of clusters, pedicels, and/or flowers 1–3, subround, ovate, or rhombic to ovate-lanceolate, membranous, margins entire or denticulate, apex acute to obtuse.

(0–)0.5–2.2 mm.

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

calyx straw yellow, campanulate to urceolate, equaling corolla tube length or nearly so, divided 2/3 its length, reticulate and shiny, lobes obovate-orbiculate, bases overlapping, margins denticulate, midvein not carinate, apex rounded;

corolla white, drying straw yellow, 1.6–2.6 mm, tube campanulate, 0.6–1.5 mm, not saccate, lobes reflexed, ovate to broadly elliptic, equaling corolla tube length, margins irregularly denticulate, apex rounded, straight;

infrastaminal scales ovate to oblong, 0.6–1.4 mm, equaling corolla tube length, bridged at 0.4–0.6 mm, rounded to truncate, uniformly denticulate or short-fimbriate, fimbriae 0.05–0.1 mm;

stamens included to slightly exserted, shorter than corolla lobes;

filaments 0.2–0.4 mm;

anthers 0.2–0.4 × 0.3–0.3 mm;

styles filiform, 0.3–0.5 mm, shorter than ovary.

globose-ovoid, 1.3–2.1 × 1–2 mm, not thickened or raised around inconspicuous interstylar aperture, translucent, capped by withered corolla, indehiscent.

1, not angled or obcompressed or globose to globose-ovoid, 0.8–1.1 × 0.8–1.1 mm, hilum region terminal;

embryo enlarged-globose at base.

= 30.