Flora of North America species comparison

solitary, erect, straight;

branches distal or along entire stem, proximal or distal longest, antrorse, straight to upcurved; hairy.

blade 72–295 × 14–45 mm, widest intersinus distance 10.1–23.3 mm;

proximal oblanceolate or elliptic, margins serrate to pinnate, teeth or lobes 16–26, slightly antrorse, 1–16.5 mm;

distal elliptic to lanceolate, base clasping or not, margins serrate to pinnate, teeth or lobes 9–20, slightly antrorse, 5.3–13.7 mm;

surfaces with needlelike trichomes.

persisting;

petiole present or absent;

blade linear-lanceolate to linear, margins deeply to shallowly lobed.

petiole absent;

blade ovate-lanceolate to linear, to 15 cm, margins deeply to shallowly lobed or entire.

margins pinnate.

green, ovate to linear, 3.7–8.6 × 0.8–3.9 mm, width 1/6–2/3 length, not concealing capsule, margins 3-lobed or entire, lateral lobes never prominent.

petals white, 47–75 × 13–22.7 mm, apex acute to attenuate, glabrous abaxially;

stamens white to yellow, 5 outermost petaloid, filaments spatulate, strongly clawed, 48–75 × 12–23 mm, without anthers, second whorl with anthers;

anthers straight after dehiscence, epidermis smooth;

styles 36–53 mm.

sepals 1–5 mm;

petals orange proximally, yellow distally, 3–7(–8) mm, apex usually acute, rarely retuse;

stamens 20+, 3–5 mm, filaments monomorphic, filiform, unlobed;

styles 2–5 mm.

cylindric, 30–43 × 12–17 mm, base tapering, not longitudinally ridged.

clavate, 8–28(–35) × 1.5–3.5 mm, longest capsules usually 15+ mm, axillary curved to 180° at maturity, usually inconspicuously longitudinally ribbed.

2.3–4 mm;

coat anticlinal cell walls straight, papillae 4–10 per cell.

10–30, in 2+ rows distal to mid fruit, dark brown or tan, moderately to densely dark-mottled, usually irregularly polygonal, occasionally triangular prisms proximal to mid fruit, surface tuberculate under 10x magnification; recurved flap over hilum absent;

seed coat cell outer periclinal wall domed, domes on seed edges more than 1/2 as tall as wide at maturity.

= 22.

= 54, 72.