Flora of North America species comparison

multiple, erect, zigzag or straight;

branches distal or along entire stem, distal longest or all ± equal, antrorse, straight; hairy.

blade 15.4–40(–86) × 4–12.2 mm, always some more than 10 mm wide, widest intersinus distance 4–12.2 mm;

proximal oblanceolate to spatulate, margins usually entire, rarely dentate, teeth 0(–4), perpendicular to leaf axis, 0.1–1 mm;

distal oblanceolate, spatulate, or elliptic, base not clasping, margins usually entire, rarely dentate, teeth 0(–4), perpendicular to leaf axis, 0.3–1.4 mm;

abaxial surface with simple grappling-hook, complex grappling-hook, and needlelike trichomes, adaxial surface with simple grappling-hook and needlelike trichomes.

persisting;

petiole present or absent;

blade linear-lanceolate to linear, margins usually irregularly deeply lobed, lobes pointed.

petiole absent;

blade ovate-lanceolate to linear, to 15(–22) cm, margins few-lobed or entire.

green, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 2.9–8.2 × 1.1–1.9 mm, width 1/8–1/2 length, not concealing capsule, margins entire.

margins entire.

sepals 2–6 mm;

petals yellow to orange proximally, yellow distally, 3–8 mm, apex rounded or acute apex;

stamens 20–40, 2–7 mm, filaments monomorphic, filiform, unlobed;

styles 2–6 mm.

petals golden yellow, 8.2–12.2(–15.2) × 2.4–5 mm, apex acute, glabrous abaxially;

stamens golden yellow, 5 outermost petaloid, filaments narrowly spatulate, slightly clawed, 5.6–11(–13.5) × 1.4–3 mm, with anthers, second whorl with anthers;

anthers usually twisted after dehiscence, epidermis papillate;

styles 5.5–9.4 mm.

clavate, 11–31 × 1.5–3 mm, axillary curved to 250° at maturity, usually inconspicuously longitudinally ribbed.

cup-shaped, 5–8.4 × 3.1–6 mm, base tapering to rounded, not longitudinally ridged.

15–50, in 2+ rows distal to mid fruit, tan, usually not, occasionally sparsely, dark-mottled, usually irregularly polygonal, occasionally triangular prisms proximal to mid fruit, surface colliculate under 10x magnification; recurved flap over hilum absent;

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

coat anticlinal cell walls straight, papillae 3–5 per cell.

= 36.

= 22.