Flora of North America species comparison

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

of trunks and older branches brown, smooth.

puberulent, glabrescent in age.

glabrous.

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 broadly ovate to ovate-orbiculate, 7-25 × 4-16 cm, thinly leathery, base rounded to truncate, margins entire, occasionally wavy, apex abruptly long-caudate or long-acuminate, tip to 2.5-9 cm;

surfaces occasionally glaucous, glabrous;

basal veins 2(-3) pairs;

lateral veins 6-9 pairs, the main veins finely reticulate.

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, sessile, dark purple, nearly globose, 1-1.5 × 1-1.5 cm, glabrous; subtending bracts ovate, 3-5 mm, silky-puberulous;

ostiole closed by 3 bracts 2-3 mm wide, umbonate.