Flora of North America species comparison

yellow-orange, coarse.

dense to loose, glomerulate, often originating endogenously;

bracts at base of clusters, pedicels, and/or flowers 2–4(–6), ovate-orbiculate, fleshy, margins scarious, finely denticulate-fimbriate, apex erect, obtuse.

0–1 mm.

5-merous, 4–6 mm, fleshy, not papillate;

calyx brown-yellow, cylindro-campanulate, 3/4 corolla tube length, divided to base or nearly so, finely reticulate, shiny, lobes orbiculate, bases broadly overlapping, margins scarious, minutely denticulate-fimbriate, midvein not carinate, apex rounded;

corolla white to creamy greenish, drying creamy brown, 3.8–4.5 mm, tube cylindric, 3–4 mm, not saccate, lobes spreading to reflexed, ovate, 1/3–1/4 corolla tube length, margins entire, apex obtuse, straight;

infrastaminal scales oblong to obovate, 2.6–3.3 mm, 3/4 to equaling corolla tube length, bridged at 0.9–1.3 mm, usually densely fimbriate in distal 1/2–3/4, sometimes reduced, 2-fid with 1–3 fimbriae on each side of filament insertion or dentate-winged, fimbriae 0.4–0.8 mm;

stamens exserted, shorter than corolla lobes;

filaments 0.2–0.3 mm;

anthers 0.3–0.4 × 0.3–0.4 mm;

styles filiform, 1–2 mm, longer than ovary.

conic-globose to broadly ellipsoid, 3–5(–6) × 2–2.5 mm, thickened and slightly umbonate around relatively small interstylar aperture, not translucent, capped by withered corolla, indehiscent.

1–4, obcompressed, broadly ovoid to broadly ellipsoid, 1.9–2.5 × 1.7–2.3 mm, hilum region subterminal.

= 30.