Flora of North America species comparison

clustered, internodes not lined, with black glands scattered all over.

internodes 4-angled.

spreading or ascending, usually sessile, rarely petiolate (to 1 mm);

blade elliptic or oblong to lanceolate or triangular-lanceolate, or oblanceolate, 14–40(–58) × 3–17(–22.5) mm, base cordate to narrowly cuneate, margins plane, apex usually rounded to retuse, rarely acute to obtuse, midrib with 3–5 pairs of branches, tertiary veins densely reticulate toward margins, black glands intramarginal (dense) and laminar (scattered).

spreading, sessile or amplexicaul;

blade usually ovate-triangular to broadly ovate, rarely oblong (mid and distal blades lanceolate-deltate), 5–25 × 3–12 mm, papery to membranous, margins plane, apex usually subacute, basal veins (3–)5, midrib usually with 1–2 pairs of branches.

subcorymbiform to cylindric, 10–206(–600)-flowered, subsidiary branches narrowly ascending to curved-ascending.

laxly corymbiform to cylindric, (1–)5–65-flowered, branching mostly dichasial.

8–15 mm diam.;

sepals not imbricate, erect in fruit, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate to elliptic or ovate-elliptic, subequal, (1.5–)2–4 × 0.8–1.6 mm, apex acute to rounded;

petals pale yellow, oblanceolate to elliptic, 3–6(–9) mm;

stamens (20–)30–60;

anther gland black;

styles 1–4 mm.

4.5–7 mm diam.;

sepals lanceolate to narrowly ovate, equal, 3–5 × 0.8–1.2 mm, margins sometimes ciliate, not setulose-ciliate, apex acute to acuminate;

petals bright yellow, oblanceolate, 2–4 mm;

stamens 10–14, scarcely grouped;

styles 0.5–0.7 mm;

stigmas broadly capitate.

ovoid to subglobose, 2.5–6 × 2–3.5(–4) mm, with longitudinal vittae or elongate to ovoid vesicles.

narrowly conic-ellipsoid, 3–5 × 1.5–2 mm, usually broadest at or near middle.

not carinate, 0.5–0.7 mm;

testa linear-reticulate.

0.5–0.6 mm;

testa finely linear-scalariform.

= 14, 16.

= 16.