Flora of North America species comparison

light yellow, filiform.

greenish yellow to purple, spotted, coarse.

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.

spikes, racemes, or loose panicles with 1–3(–5)-flowered cymes, flowers sessile or short-pedicellate;

bracts at base of clusters and pedicels 1, ovate, margins entire, apex obtuse.

(0–)0.5–2.2 mm.

0–2 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.

5-merous, 4–5 mm, thick and fleshy, not papillate;

calyx yellow-brown, globose-campanulate, equaling corolla tube length, divided 2/3 its length, not reticulate or shiny, lobes ovate to orbiculate, bases overlapping, margins entire, partly hyaline, midvein sometimes ± carinate or thickened, apex rounded;

corolla white, drying yellow-brown, 3.8–4.8 mm, tube cylindric-campanulate, 2.8–3.5 mm, not saccate, lobes erect to spreading, ovate to suborbiculate, 1/4–1/3 tube length, margins entire, apex rounded;

infrastaminal scales oblong to ovate, 1.5–2 mm, 1/2–2/3 corolla tube length, bridged at 0.5–1 mm, 2-fid or with coarse fimbriae distally, 0.1–0.4 mm;

stamens included, shorter than corolla lobes;

filaments 0.1–0.3 mm;

anthers 0.3–0.5 × 0.3–0.5 mm;

styles 1, sometimes distally 2-fid or separating into 2 when pulled apart, 1–1.2 mm, ± equaling or longer than ovary, longer than stigmas;

stigmas depressed-globose, 0.1–0.5 mm.

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

globose-ovoid to conic, 5–7(–10) × 3–5(–6) mm, not translucent, capped by withered corolla.

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.

4, angled, broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid or obovoid, 3–3.9 × 2.2–2.5 mm, hilum area lateral.

= 30.