Flora of North America species comparison

aerial, often descending to ground level and forming pillar-roots Bark of trunks and older branches brown, smooth.

adventitious, aerial.

grayish to brown, smooth.

puberulent, glabrescent in age.

grayish, smooth.

blade ovate, 10-30 × 7-20 cm, leathery, base cordate, margins entire, apex obtuse;

surfaces abaxially puberulent, adaxially glabrous;

basal veins (2-)3-4 pairs, 1/3-1/2 length of blade, reticulations regular;

lateral veins 5-6(-7) pairs.

blade elliptic to obovate, 2-8 × 1-4 cm, base usually acute or cuneate to nearly obtuse, margins entire, apex acute, obtuse, or short-apiculate;

surfaces abaxially and adaxially glabrous;

basal veins 1(-2) pairs;

lateral veins 6-14 pairs, not uniformly spaced.

paired, sessile, orange or red, depressed-globose, 1.5-2 × 2-2.5 mm, pubescent; subtending bracts ovate, 3-7 mm, puberulous;

ostiole closed by 3 flat or nearly umbonate apical bracts 3-4 mm wide.

paired, red, not spotted, globose, 3-7 mm diam., glabrous;

peduncles 2-5 mm; subtending bracts 2, basally connate, ovate, 1-1.5 mm;

ostiole ca. 1 mm wide, subtended by 3 bracts, bracts ca. 1 mm, not umbonate.