Flora of North America species comparison

internodes 4-lined.

internodes 4-lined.

ascending to widely spreading, sessile;

blade narrowly lanceolate (linear-lanceolate on axillary branches), 10–40(–55) × 5–10(–13) mm, longer than internodes, leathery, margins plane, apex acute to acuminate, densely gland-dotted, basal vein 1, midrib with inconspicuous branches.

(main stem) spreading to appressed, sessile;

blade usually broadly to narrowly ovate, rarely elliptic or lanceolate, 4–20 × 5–15(–18) mm, mostly shorter than internodes, leathery, margins plane, apex acute to subrounded, densely gland-dotted, basal veins 1–5, if 1, midrib with 2–3 pairs of branches.

cylindric, to 40-flowered; branching mostly dichasial, subsidiary branches usually with relatively smaller leaves.

broadly pyramidal to corymbiform, to 25-flowered, branching mostly dichasial.

8–15+ mm diam.;

sepals lanceolate, unequal (outer slightly wider than inner), 3–6(–7.5) × 1.1–1.8(–2.2) mm, margins sometimes ciliate, not setulose-ciliate, apex acute or acuminate;

petals orange-yellow, obovate, 5–10 mm;

stamens 50–80, filaments basally connate;

styles 2–4 mm;

stigmas capitate.

5–13 mm diam.;

sepals ovate or lanceolate to elliptic or obovate, subequal, 3–8 × 1.5–4 mm, margins sometimes ciliate, not setulose-ciliate, apex acute;

petals orange-yellow, obovate, 5–10 mm;

stamens 50–80, irregularly grouped;

styles 2–4 mm;

stigmas clavate.

ovoid, 5 × 3–4 mm.

ovoid to rostrate-subglobose, 3–5 × 2–3 mm.

0.4–0.8 mm;

testa linear-pitted.

0.4–0.7 mm;

testa obscurely linear-reticulate to finely ribbed-scalariform.

= 24.