Flora of North America species comparison

suberect, prostrate, or scandent, glabrous or puberulent, sometimes papillose.

deciduous, cauline, alternate, usually petiolate;

ocrea usually deciduous, sometimes persistent, chartaceous;

petiole base articulated, extrafloral nectaries present;

blade linear to orbiculate, panduriform, or triangular-lanceolate, margins entire or irregularly wavy.

ocrea deciduous, brownish hyaline, cylindric, 2–3 mm, margins truncate, eciliate, faces puberulent along veins;

petiole 3–10 mm, brownish-puberulent;

blade ovate-oblong to suborbiculate or panduriform, 0.5–2.5(–4) × 0.5–2.5(–4) cm, coriaceous, base truncate, margins entire, glabrous or scabrous, apex rounded to apiculate, glabrous adaxially and abaxially, or puberulent abaxially along midvein, obscurely punctuate abaxially.

terminal and axillary, spikelike, essentially not pedunculate.

terminal and axillary, 5–30 mm.

prescent.

ascending to spreading, 1.5–2 mm.

bisexual and unisexual, with staminate, pistillate, or sometimes both sexes occurring with bisexual flowers on the same plant, 1–2(–5) per ocreate fascicle, base stipelike;

perianth accrescent, white to greenish white, campanulate, glabrous;

tepals 5, connate proximally, sepaloid, dimorphic, outer slightly larger than inner.

1–2(–5) per ocreate fascicle;

perianth yellowish green or greenish;

tepals connate ca. 1/4 their length, lanceolate-ovate to obovate, 2–4 mm, apex rounded to acute.

stamens 8 (9);

filaments distinct, adnate to base of perianth tube, glabrous;

anthers yellow or pink to purple, ovate to elliptic;

pistil rudimentary.

anthers pink to purple, ovate to elliptic.

tube white or reddish purple to black in fruit, becoming fleshy;

stamens rudimentary;

styles 3, spreading, connate proximally;

stigmas fimbriate.

tube white in fruit.

completely or partly included in fleshy perianth, black or dark brown, unwinged, 3-gonous to subglobose, glabrous.

exserted or included, black or dark brown, 3-gonous, 3–4 × 2–3 mm, shiny, smooth.

embryo straight.

= 10.

= 20 (New Zealand).