Flora of North America species comparison

solitary, erect, straight;

branches distal, distal longest, antrorse, straight; hairy.

blade 19–82 × 4.8–22.1 mm, widest intersinus distance 2.7–6.7 mm;

proximal oblanceolate to elliptic, margins serrate to pinnate, teeth or lobes 10–22, slightly antrorse or perpendicular to leaf axis, 1–5.5 mm;

distal elliptic to lanceolate, base not clasping, margins pinnate, lobes 8–14, usually perpendicular to leaf axis, 0.8–7 mm;

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

persisting;

petiole present or absent;

blade lanceolate to linear, margins deeply to shallowly lobed.

petiole absent;

blade ovate to linear, to 12 cm, margins deeply lobed to dentate.

green, ovate to lanceolate, 6.6–12.8 × 1.9–6.8 mm, width 1/5–2/3 length, not concealing capsule, margins 3–7-lobed.

margins entire or toothed.

sepals 3–13 mm;

petals red to orange proximally, orange to yellow distally, 8–22 mm, apex mucronate, rounded, or retuse;

stamens 20+, 4–11 mm, filaments monomorphic, filiform, unlobed;

styles 5–13 mm.

petals golden yellow, 7.6–12.3 × 2–3.8 mm, apex usually acute, occasionally rounded, glabrous abaxially;

stamens golden yellow, 5 outermost petaloid, filaments narrowly spatulate, slightly clawed, 6.4–11.8 × 1.1–2.7 mm, without anthers, second whorl with anthers;

anthers straight after dehiscence, epidermis smooth;

styles 5.6–7.8 mm.

clavate, 12–35 × 2–4 mm, axillary curved to 90° at maturity, usually inconspicuously longitudinally ribbed.

cylindric, 10.8–20 × 5.3–7.6 mm, length more than 2 times diam., base tapering, not longitudinally ridged.

20–40, in 2+ rows distal to mid fruit, tan, dark-mottled or not, 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.

coat anticlinal cell walls straight, papillae 4–5 per cell.

= 18.

= 22.