Flora of North America species comparison

internodes 4-lined.

internodes 4-lined at first, soon 2-winged.

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.

blades elliptic or oblong-linear to narrowly obovate or oblanceolate, 3–10 × 1–3 mm, base not articulated, rounded to cuneate, without glandlike auricles, margins plane to subrecurved, apex obtuse, midrib unbranched.

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

1-flowered, often with pseudodichotomous branches from apical node, without proximal branches;

pedicels mostly recurved to reflexed in fruit, bracteoles proximal.

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.

10–15 mm diam.;

sepals persistent, enclosing capsule, (2 or) 4, unequal, outer broadly ovate to broadly elliptic, 4–8 × 4–8 mm, apex obtuse to rounded, inner none or minute;

petals 4, pale yellow, narrowly obovate, often unequal, 4–8 mm;

stamens persistent, 30;

ovary 2-merous.

ovoid, 5 × 3–4 mm.

cylindric-ellipsoid, 3–5 × 2–3 mm.

0.4–0.8 mm;

testa linear-pitted.

scarcely carinate, 1 mm;

testa finely reticulate.

= 24.

= 18.