Flora of North America species comparison

internodes 4-angled.

internodes 4-lined at first, then terete.

spreading, sessile or subamplexicaul;

blade ovate or orbiculate to elliptic or oblanceolate (proximal) or oblong (distal), 3–13 × 1.5–8.5 mm, papery to membranous, margins plane, apex rounded, basal veins 3–5(–7), distally looped, midrib unbranched.

spreading, sessile;

blade narrowly elliptic to narrowly elliptic-oblong, 20–70 × 5–15 mm, (proximal usually narrower), base narrowly cuneate to subangustate, margins plane, apex acute to apiculate-obtuse, midrib with 8–12 pairs of branches, tertiary veins densely reticulate toward margins.

loosely corymbiform, 1–14-flowered, branching mostly dichasial.

broadly rounded-pyramidal to broadly cylindric, to 30-flowered.

3–5(–8) mm diam.;

sepals usually narrowly elliptic-oblong to oblanceolate-spatulate, rarely obovate, unequal, 2–4 × 0.9–2 mm, margins sometimes ciliate, not setulose-ciliate, apex subacute to rounded;

petals golden yellow to salmon-orange, oblanceolate, (1.7–)3.5–5 mm;

stamens (5–)12–15(–25), separate or obscurely 3-fascicled;

styles 0.5–2 mm;

stigmas scarcely capitate.

sepals lanceolate, unequal, 3–4.5 × 1–2.2 mm;

petals bright yellow, not red-tinged, oblanceolate-unguiculate, 12–17 mm;

anther gland yellow to orange;

styles widely spreading, 8–14 mm.

ellipsoid to cylindric or subglobose, 2.5–5 × 1.7–2.5 mm.

pyramidal-ovoid to ovoid-ellipsoid, 9–12 × 7–8 mm.

0.5–0.6 mm;

testa linear-scalariform.

1.5–2 mm, narrowly winged;

testa linear-reticulate to linear-foveolate.

= 16.

= 40.