Flora of North America species comparison

internodes 4-lined.

internodes narrowly 4-winged at first, then 2-lined.

ascending to deflexed, sessile;

blade narrowly oblong-elliptic (proximal) or lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 10–30 × 3–8 mm, mostly longer than internodes, not or scarcely smaller distally, leathery, margins plane, apex acute, basal or near-basal veins 1–3(–5), midrib with 0–2 pairs of branches.

blades oblong to elliptic-oblong, 20–40 × 12–20 mm, base not articulated, broadly cuneate, margins usually plane, rarely recurved, apex rounded to retuse, midrib with 6 pairs of branches.

broadly pyramidal to subcorymbiform, 1(–30)-flowered, branching mostly dichasial.

terminal (1–)3–5(–8)-flowered, narrowly branched.

4–10 mm diam.;

sepals lanceolate, usually unequal, 3–5 × 0.8–1 mm, margins sometimes ciliate, not setulose-ciliate, apex acute to acuminate;

petals orange-yellow, obovate, 6–10 mm;

stamens 50–80, irregularly grouped;

styles 2–4 mm;

stigmas capitate.

15 mm diam.;

sepals tardily deciduous, not enclosing capsule, 5, spatulate to elliptic or ovate, unequal, 3–5 × 1.5–2.3 mm;

petals 5, coppery yellow, oblong, 8–10 mm length 2 times sepals;

stamens deciduous, 60–80;

ovary 3-merous, placentation incompletely axile.

ellipsoid to rostrate-subglobose, 3–4.5 × 2–2.5 mm.

cylindric-conic, 6–15 × 4.5–8 mm.

0.5–0.6(–0.7) mm;

testa obscurely linear-reticulate to irregularly reticulate.

scarcely carinate, 1.8–2 mm;

testa finely scalariform-reticulate.

= 24.