Flora of North America species comparison

orange-yellow, slender.

dense, corymbiform to glomerulate;

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

0.4–1.3 mm.

5-merous, 2–2.6 mm, membranous, not papillate;

calyx straw yellow, cupulate, equaling corolla tube length, divided 2/3 its length, finely reticulate, shiny, lobes ovate, bases not overlapping, margins entire, midvein with multicellular protuberances, apex acute;

corolla white, drying creamy, 1.5–2.1 mm, tube cylindro-campanulate, becoming globose, 0.8–1.2 mm, not saccate, lobes erect to spreading, ovate-triangular, shorter than to equaling corolla tube length, margins usually entire, sometimes irregularly toothed, apex acute, straight to slightly incurved;

infrastaminal scales oblong or rounded, 0.9–1.3 mm, equaling or slightly longer than corolla tube length, bridged at 0.1–0.2 mm, uniformly fimbriate in distal 1/2, fimbriae 0.1–0.3 mm;

stamens exserted, shorter than corolla lobes;

filaments 0.3–0.6 mm;

anthers 0.2–0.3 × 0.2–0.3 mm;

styles filiform, 0.4–0.7 mm, shorter than to equaling ovary.

depressed-globose, 1.5–2.5 × 1–1.8 mm, not thickened or raised around relatively small interstylar aperture, translucent, loosely surrounded or capped by withered corolla, dehiscence circumscissile.

3 or 4, angled, broadly ellipsoid to subglobose, 0.8–1 × 0.7–0.9 mm, hilum region almost terminal.