Flora of North America species comparison

yellow to orange, slender to medium.

yellowish to orange, medium.

dense, corymbiform to 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;

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

0.5–3(–4.5) mm.

0–0.5(–1.5) mm.

(4 or)5-merous, 1.4–2.5 mm, membranous, corolla lobes sometimes papillate;

calyx yellow to brown, angled, cupulate, equaling corolla tube length, divided 1/2–2/3 its length, ± reticulate, shiny or not, lobes broadly ovate to rhombic, base auriculate, overlapping, forming prominent angles at sinuses, margins entire, midvein not carinate, without multicellular protuberances, apex rounded;

corolla whitish, drying yellow to brown, 1.2–2.2 mm, tube campanulate, 0.7–1.2 mm, not saccate, lobes spreading, triangular-lanceolate, equaling corolla tube length, margins entire, apex acute to acuminate, inflexed;

infrastaminal scales ovate to oblong, 0.7–1.4 mm, equaling or longer than corolla tube length, bridged at 0.3–0.5 mm, rounded, ± uniformly densely fimbriate, 0.15–0.25 mm;

stamens exserted, shorter than corolla lobes;

filaments 0.3–0.4 mm;

anthers 0.2–0.3 × 0.2–0.3 mm;

styles filiform, 0.7–1.1 mm, equaling ovary.

5-merous, 2.7–3.4 mm, membranous, usually not papillate;

calyx usually yellow, campanulate, somewhat shorter than to equaling corolla tube length, divided 2/5–1/2 its length, not reticulate, shiny, lobes narrowly ovate to lanceolate, bases not overlapping, margins entire, midvein not carinate, apex acuminate;

corolla white, drying creamy white or yellow, 2.5–3.2 mm, tube cylindric-campanulate, 1.4–2.1 mm, saccate between lines of stamen attachments, lobes usually spreading, sometimes reflexed, lanceolate, shorter than corolla tube length, margins entire, apex acuminate, straight;

infrastaminal scales absent;

stamens ± exserted, shorter than corolla lobes;

filaments 0.2–0.5 mm;

anthers 0.2–0.5 × 0.2–0.4 mm;

styles filiform, 0.5–1(–1.5) mm, shorter than ovary.

depressed-globose to ovoid, 1.9–2.4 × 1.6–2.5 mm, not thickened or raised around relatively medium-sized to large interstylar aperture, translucent or not, base ± enveloped by withered corolla, indehiscent.

globose to depressed-globose, 1.8–2.2 × 2–2.6 mm, slightly thickened, not raised, around relatively small interstylar aperture, translucent, surrounded by, not completely enclosed by, withered corolla (top of capsule visible), indehiscent.

4, angled, subglobose to broadly ellipsoid, 0.9–1.1 × 0.8–1 mm, hilum region subterminal.

2–4, obcompressed, subglobose to broadly ellipsoid, 0.8–1.3 × 0.8–1.1 mm, hilum region lateral.

= 56.