Flora of North America species comparison

persisting;

petiole present or absent;

blade linear-lanceolate, margins deeply to shallowly lobed.

petioles present;

blade oblanceolate to lanceolate, to 10 cm;

margins shallowly lobed, lobes rounded.

petiole absent;

blade ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, to 17 cm, margins usually deeply lobed to dentate, rarely entire.

petioles usually present, rarely absent;

blade broadly ovate to lanceolate, to 10 cm, base not cordate-clasping, margins dentate to serrate.

usually green with prominent white base usually conspicuously extending outwards from midvein, rarely green, usually ovate, rarely lanceolate, 3.3–6.2 × 1.5–3.2 mm, width 1/4–7/8 length, not concealing capsule, margins usually 3–7-lobed, rarely entire.

green, inconspicuous, not concealing pedicel, ovary, or capsule.

sepals 2–5 mm;

petals red to orange proximally, orange to yellow distally, 4–7(–10) mm, apex retuse;

stamens 20+, 3–7 mm, filaments monomorphic, filiform, unlobed;

styles (3–)3.5–6 mm.

petals pale yellow to white, lanceolate to oblanceolate, 6–12 mm, apex acute;

stamens 3–12 mm (fertile 3–8 mm), 1/2 to ± equal petal length, 1–3(–5) outermost staminodial and petaloid (flowers appearing to have 6–8(–10) petals);

filaments heteromorphic, 1–3(–5) outermost oblanceolate, inner linear, all unlobed;

style 5–6.5 mm.

clavate, 8–28 × 2–4 mm, axillary curved to 70° at maturity, usually inconspicuously longitudinally ribbed.

cylindric to ovoid, 9–13 × 5–7 mm, proximal nodding, distal erect.

15–35, in 2+ rows distal to mid fruit, tan, 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 or equal to 1/2 as tall as wide at maturity.

constricted and grooved at middle;

seed coat anticlinal cell walls straight, obscure.

= 54.

= 20.