Flora of North America species comparison

yellow to orange, slender to medium.

white to creamy yellow, 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.

loose to moderately dense, paniculiform or corymbiform;

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

0.5–3(–4.5) mm.

1.5–6 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, 3.5–4.5 mm, membranous, not papillate;

calyx yellow, cupulate, 3/4 to ± equaling corolla tube length, divided 1/2–2/3 its length, finely reticulate, shiny, lobes orbiculate to oblong-obovate, bases overlapping, margins minutely erose or denticulate, membranous, midvein carinate, apex ± truncate, each not exceeded by a hornlike appendage, 0.1–0.2 mm;

corolla creamy white, drying creamy white to reddish brown, 3.2–4 mm, tube campanulate, 1.5–2.2 mm, not saccate, sometimes with horizontal ridges between stamen attachments, lobes erect or spreading to reflexed, oblong-obovate to orbiculate, shorter than to equaling corolla tube length, margins minutely erose or denticulate, membranous, midvein unevenly carinate, apex ± truncate, each with a hornlike appendage 0.1–0.2 mm, not exceeding apex, straight;

infrastaminal scales oblong to ± truncate, 1.5–2 mm, 3/4 to equaling corolla tube length, bridged at 0.4–0.6 mm, uniformly densely fimbriate, fimbriae 0.2–0.4 mm;

stamens exserted, shorter than corolla lobes;

filaments 0.4–1 mm;

anthers 0.7–1 × 0.4–0.5 mm;

styles stout, subulate, 1.8–3.2 mm, longer 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, 2–2.5 × 2.2–2.5 mm, thickened, not raised around inconspicuous interstylar aperture, not translucent, withered corolla near middle or apical, dehiscence circumscissile.

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

1–4, angled, subglobose to ovoid, 0.9–1.4 × 0.8–1.3 mm, papillate, hilum region terminal.

= 56.