Flora of North America species comparison

internodes 4-angled.

internodes (4-) or 6-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.

blades linear-subulate, 13–25 × 0.5–0.8 mm, base articulated, parallel, margins revolute, apex rounded to retuse, midrib unbranched.

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

narrowly pyramidal, 1–3-flowered, with 1–3(–5)-flowered dichasia from to 5 proximal nodes, without additional flowering branches;

pedicels 0.5 mm.

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.

12–14 mm diam.;

sepals deciduous, not enclosing capsule, 5, linear-subulate, unequal, (3–)4.5–7 × 0.5–0.8 mm;

petals 5, golden yellow, oblanceolate-oblong, 5–7.5 mm;

stamens deciduous, 100;

ovary 3-merous.

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

ovoid, 3–4 × 2–2.5 mm.

0.5–0.6 mm;

testa linear-scalariform.

carinate, 0.7 mm;

testa not seen.

= 16.