Flora of North America species comparison

adventitious, nodal.

adventitious, occasionally hanging.

gray, smooth.

appressed-pubescent when young, glabrous in age.

brown, glabrous.

blade oblong to ovate-elliptic or obovate, 4-10 × 2.5-4.5 cm, those of appressed climbing stems distichous, appressed, smaller (than those of loose, extended, flowering stems), spreading, leathery, base obtuse to rounded, margins recurved, apex obtuse to nearly acute;

surfaces abaxially glabrous or puberulent on veins, adaxially glabrous, prominently reticulate;

basal pair of veins 1;

lateral pairs of veins 3-6, straight;

secondary veins prominent.

blade oblong, elliptic, lanceolate, or ovate, 4-6(-11) × 1.5-6 cm, nearly leathery, base rounded or cuneate, margins entire, apex acuminate or cuspidate;

surfaces abaxially and adaxially glabrous;

basal veins 1(-2) pairs, short;

lateral veins (6-)12(-14) pairs, regularly spaced, uniform;

secondary veins prominent.

vines or sprawling shrubs, vines closely appressed to substrate, shrubs loosely ascending, evergreen.

solitary, pedunculate, green, oblong, obovoid, pyriform, or nearly globose, 3-4 × 3-4 cm, slightly pubescent but becoming glabrescent in age;

peduncle thick, 8-15 mm; subtending bracts ovate, 5-7 mm;

ostiole closed by 3 bracts, umbonate.

solitary or paired, sessile or subsessile, orange, yellow, or dark red, nearly globose, 8-12 × 7-10 mm, glabrous; subtending bracts 2-3, crescent-shaped, 0.5-1.5 mm, glabrous;

ostiole closed by 3 small, flat, apical bracts 1.5-2 mm wide, umbonate.