Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, green or striped with pink or red, branched, (7–)15–90 cm.

ocrea brownish hyaline, loose, funnelform, 2–8 mm, margins truncate, eciliate, glabrous or puberulent proximally;

petiole 1.5–6(–9) cm, usually puberulent adaxially;

blade palmately veined with 7–9 primary basal veins, hastate-triangular, sagittate-triangular, or cordate, 2.5–8 × 2–8 cm, base truncate or cordate to sagittate, margins ciliolate, apex acute to acuminate.

terminal and axillary, paniclelike, 1–4 cm, usually crowded at stem apices;

peduncle 0.5–4 cm, puberulent in lines.

ascending or recurved, 2.5–4 mm.

chasmogamous, heterostylous [homostylous];

perianths creamy white to pale pink;

tepals elliptic to obovate, (2.5–)3–5 mm, margins entire, apex obtuse to acute;

stamens ca. 1/2 as long as or slightly longer than perianth;

styles 1.5–2 mm or 0.5–1 mm;

stigmas purplish.

uniformly light brown or streaked with dark brown or black, sharply 3-gonous, 4–6 × 4–6 mm, faces smooth, angles prominent, unwinged or essentially so, smooth or occasionally with blunt tooth in proximal 1/3.

= 16 (China).