Flora of North America species comparison

internodes 4-lined.

internodes 4-lined at first, soon 2-lined, with black glands on or near lines.

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.

spreading, sessile;

blade ovate to oblong or lanceolate, 33–65 × 15–27 mm, base cordate to truncate or broadly cuneate, margins plane, apex obtuse to rounded, midrib with 4–5 pairs of branches, tertiary veins densely reticulate toward margins, black glands intramarginal (dense) and, sometimes, laminar (scattered).

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

subcorymbiform, (2–)5–14(–22)-flowered, subsidiary branches sometimes narrowly ascending or curved-ascending.

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.

20–25(–30) mm diam.;

sepals not imbricate, erect in fruit, lanceolate, subequal, 5–7.5(–11) × 1–3 mm, apex acute;

petals golden yellow, narrowly obovate, 11–18 mm;

stamens 50–90(–103);

anther gland black;

styles 5.6–12 mm.

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

broadly ovoid, 5–8 × 3.5–5 mm, with longitudinal vittae.

0.5–0.6(–0.7) mm;

testa obscurely linear-reticulate to irregularly reticulate.

not carinate, 0.8–1.1 mm;

testa linear-reticulate.

= 24.

= 16.