Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect, 20–65 cm.

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.

petiole absent;

blade linear to linear-elliptic or linear-lanceolate, 30–105 × 2–4(–7) mm, chartaceous, base attenuate, rounded, or nearly truncate, apex acute;

only midvein evident.

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 or obconic, 1.6–3.3 × 1.8–3.1 mm, lobes ovate, 0.5–0.7 mm, ciliate, exceeded by glands;

glands yellow-green, oblong to trapezoidal, 0.5–0.8 × 0.8–1.2 mm, distal margins deeply erose.

2–8.

20.

ovary strigillose, often canescent when young;

styles 0.2–0.6 mm, 2-fid 1/2 length.

gynophore exserted 2.9–5.3 mm, calyxlike lobes triangular, 0.3–0.7 mm;

styles connate 1/3–1/4 length, 1.1–1.7 mm.

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

columella 0.7–1 mm.

oblate-ovoid, 4.6–5.5 × 8.9–9 mm, strongly 3-lobed;

columella 3.4–4.2 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.

brown to blackish, depressed-globose, circular in cross section, 2.8–3 × 3.2–3.6 mm, smooth, base flattened, with punctiform depressions, apex flattened.

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.

peduncle (except for that of 1st cyathium at base of pleiochasia) 2–5 mm (not exceeding dichasial bracts).

arrangement: terminal pleiochasial branches 3–5, 3–16 cm, 3–5(–7) times 2-branched;

pleiochasial bracts linear-lanceolate or narrowly ovate, 19–55 × 4–12 mm, margins entire, apex acute or acuminate;

dichasial bracts usually ovate, lanceolate, or oblong, rarely deltate, 8–21 × 4–14 mm, margins entire, apex acute, acuminate, or rounded with mucronate tip;

axillary cymose branches 1–3(–6).