Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent to erect, branched.

ascending or prostrate, branched.

light green to green, sometimes becoming reddish in terrestrial plants;

stipules lanceolate, 0.5–0.6 mm, margins dentate, apex acute;

petiole 1–4 mm;

blade obovate to oblanceolate, 4–12(–15) × 1.2–3 mm, base narrowly cuneate, apex acute to obtuse.

usually green, sometimes reddish green;

stipules ovate-lanceolate, 1 mm, margins irregularly toothed, apex acute;

petiole 0.5–2 mm;

blade obovate to broadly elliptic-oblong, 2–4 × 0.5–1.5 mm, base usually cuneate, sometimes rounded, apex acute to obtuse, notched.

1.5–2.5(–3.5) mm, recurved in fruit.

absent.

sepals 4, usually equal, sometimes 1 reduced, oblong-ovate or widely lanceolate, 0.5–0.6 × 0.3–0.4 mm;

petals 4, greenish white, slightly reddish, or pink, elliptic or ovate, 1–1.5 × 0.5–0.6 mm;

stamens 8;

styles 4.

sepals 2(–3), if 2, equal, if 3, 1 smaller, oblong, 1.1–1.3 × 0.3 mm;

petals 3, pinkish, elliptic to ovate, 1–1.5 × 0.5 mm;

stamens 1–6 (number variable within plant);

styles 3.

depressed-ovoid, 4-locular, 1.3–2.5 mm diam.

globose, 3-locular, 1.1–1.7 mm diam.

2–5 per locule, oblong to ellipsoid, curved 90–180°, 0.6–1 × 0.2 mm;

pits elliptic, length 1–3 times width, in 6–10 rows, (16–)20–29 per row.

8–12 per locule, broadly ellipsoid to oblong, straight or curved 15–30°, 0.3–0.5 × 0.1–0.2 mm;

pits rounded-hexagonal, length 1–2 times width, in 9–10 rows, 12–18 per row.