Flora of North America species comparison

usually ascending, occasionally erect, often arched at tips, 20–80 cm, sparsely to moderately pilose to villous or with short, incurved hairs, hairs often concentrated at nodes and distally, occasionally in 2 bands along opposite sides of stem.

decumbent, ascending, or erect, few to many emerging from woody crown, 5–25(–50) cm, glabrous.

opposite;

stipules usually distinct, sometimes connate basally on one side of stem, small scales, irregularly toothed, fringed, or divided, 1–1.5 mm, sparsely to moderately villous distally;

petiole 0.3–1.6 mm, moderately pilose to villous;

blade oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 8–40 × 3–12 mm, base asymmetric, one side usually angled or rounded, other side ± truncate to cordate-auriculate, margins serrulate, apex angled with blunt tip, abaxial surface pale green or faintly to strongly reddish tinged, adaxial surface usually reddish-mottled or with conspicuous reddish spot, both surfaces usually sparsely to moderately pilose, especially toward base, sometimes glabrous; 3–5-veined from base, pinnate distally, veins faint.

opposite;

stipules connate into deltate scale, 0.2–0.5 mm, minutely lacerate at apex, glabrous;

petiole 0–0.2(–0.3) mm, glabrous;

blade orbiculate-reniform to acute-cordate, 2–5(–8) × 2–5(–6) mm, base ± asymmetric, cordate to auriculate, sometimes clasping stem, margins entire, apex narrowly acute, surfaces glabrous; 2- or 3-veined from base, but usually only midvein conspicuous.

narrowly obconic, 0.5–1 × 0.3–0.7 mm, glabrous;

glands 4, usually green, sometimes reddish purple, oblong to nearly circular, 0.2–0.4 × 0.3–0.5 mm;

appendages white or pinkish, ovate to broadly elliptic, 0.2–1 × 0.2–1.5 mm, distal margin entire.

broadly campanulate, 0.8–1.4 × 0.9–1.4 mm, glabrous;

glands 4, yellow-green to brownish, oblong, 0.2–0.3 × 0.5–0.7 mm;

appendages white, flabellate to oblong, 0.1–0.2(–0.5) × 0.4–0.8 mm, distal margin entire or dentate-crenate.

5–28.

22–26.

ovary glabrous;

styles 0.6–2.5 mm, 2-fid 1/2 length.

ovary glabrous;

styles 0.3–0.4 mm, unbranched, thickened-clavate.

ovoid, 1.6–2.3 × 1.5–2.4 mm, glabrous;

columella 1.4–1.6 mm.

ovoid and broadly triangular, 1.5–1.9(–2.5) × 1.4–1.6(–2.2) mm, glabrous;

columella 1.2–1.8 mm.

dark brown, sometimes with thin, white coating (often more persistent along angles than faces), elliptic-ovoid to ovoid, rounded-angular in cross section, 1–1.6 × 0.5–0.8 mm, surface finely and irregularly wrinkled, sometimes faintly so, or with indistinct, shallow, rounded cross ridges.

white, oblong, 4-angled in cross section, adaxial faces slightly concave, with long raphe between, 1.5–1.8 × 0.7–1 mm, markedly foveolate, with irregular to ± parallel or anastomosing ridges.

solitary at distal nodes or in small, cymose clusters at branch tips;

peduncle 0.5–2.5 mm.

solitary at distal nodes;

peduncle 0.3–1(–1.5) mm.

= 12, 14, 22.

= 28.