Flora of North America species comparison

usually erect to ascending, rarely prostrate or decumbent, 10–50(–75) cm, usually both strigillose and hirsute.

erect, few branched, 25–50(–100) cm, glabrous or puberulent, pencil-like, in age covered with flaky, exfoliating layer of wax.

opposite;

stipules usually distinct, rarely connate at base, undivided or divided into 2–4 narrowly deltate to linear-subulate segments, 0.5–1.8(–2.9) mm, pilose, often with light-colored, minute circular glands at base;

petiole 1–3 mm, usually both strigillose and hirsute;

blade ovate to rhombic, 7–43 × 3–18 mm, base strongly asymmetric, one side rounded or slightly cordate to truncate, the other cuneate to attenuate, margins serrulate to double serrulate, apex acute, surfaces often with red spot in center, usually strigose to hirtellous, rarely glabrescent; 3–5-veined from base.

alternate usually caducous, sometimes persisting;

stipules 0.4–0.5 mm;

petiole absent;

blade ovate to deltate-subulate, 2.5–4 × 1 mm, thick, fleshy, base usually rounded and swollen, rarely cuneate, margins entire, apex acute, surfaces puberulent, adaxial sometimes canescent;

venation inconspicuous.

obconic, 0.6–1.2 × 0.4–0.9 mm, strigillose;

glands 4, greenish to pink, circular, oblong, or reniform, 0.1–0.2 × 0.1–0.2 mm;

appendages white to pink, flabellate, subcircular, or transversely oblong, rarely absent, (0–)0.1–0.6 × (0–)0.1–0.7 mm, distal margin usually entire, rarely slightly lobed.

campanulate, 1.6–2.2 × 1.6–1.9 mm, puberulent to canescent;

glands 5, pinkish, narrowly oblong to reniform, 0.3–0.4 × 0.8–1 mm;

appendages white to pink, ovate, oblong, or transversely oblong, 1.3–2.5 × 1.4–2.5 mm, usually erose, rarely entire.

2–8.

50–70.

ovary strigillose, often canescent when young;

styles 0.2–0.6 mm, 2-fid 1/2 length.

ovary glabrous;

styles 0.9–1.1 mm, 2-fid nearly entire length.

subglobose to slightly oblate, 1–1.3 × 1.1–1.6 mm, strigillose;

columella 0.7–1 mm.

oblong to ovoid, 3.9–4.2 × 3.6–3.9 mm, glabrous;

columella 3.1–3.3 mm.

brownish red to orange or pink, narrowly ovoid, 4-angled in cross section, 0.7–0.9 × 0.5–0.7 mm, usually rugulose or with 3–6 low transverse ridges, rarely nearly smooth.

whitish gray, narrowly ovoid, 2.4–3.1 × 1.4–1.6 mm, irregularly rugose-tuberculate;

caruncle crescent-shaped, 0.3–0.6 × 0.6–0.8 mm.

in dense, axillary and terminal, capitate glomerules, with reduced, bractlike leaves subtending cyathia, axillary glomerules either sessile or at tips of elongated, leafless stalks;

peduncle 0.4–2.1 mm.

in axillary congested cymes, near branch tips or solitary at distal nodes;

peduncle 0–1 mm, lanulose.