Flora of North America species comparison

solitary, erect, straight;

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

blade 41–123 × 6.4–26.4 mm, widest intersinus distance 4.8–18 mm;

proximal spatulate, elliptic, or lanceolate, margins dentate, teeth 10–24, perpendicular to leaf axis, 0.6–3.6 mm;

distal lanceolate, base not clasping, margins dentate, teeth 10–22, perpendicular to leaf axis, 1.2–6 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, margins deeply to shallowly lobed.

petiole absent;

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

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.

margins pinnate.

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 light yellow, 11.8–23.8 × 3–6.9 mm, apex acute, glabrous abaxially;

stamens light yellow, 5 outermost petaloid, filaments narrowly spatulate, slightly clawed, 9.2–19.5 × 1.5–4.5 mm, usually without, rarely with, anthers, second whorl with anthers;

anthers straight after dehiscence, epidermis smooth;

styles 9–14 mm.

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

cylindric, (13–)18.8–29 × 7–10.5 mm, base tapering to rounded, longitudinally ridged.

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.

coat anticlinal cell walls sinuous, papillae 23–54 per cell.

= 54.

= 20.