Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate, much-branched, 5–10 cm, puberulent.

erect to ascending, much-branched distally, 5–20 cm, finely pubescent to puberulent.

stipules ovate, 3–6 mm, apex subobtuse, entire;

blade narrowly elliptic-oblong or oblong to narrowly elliptic-oblanceolate, 2–5 × 0.2–1.8(–2) mm, fleshy, apex obtuse to subacute, glabrous.

stipules lanceolate, 3–8 mm, apex acuminate, entire;

blade linear, 5–20 × 0.3–1 mm, leathery, apex minutely cuspidate, glabrous.

mostly solitary at end of shoots, almost concealed by leaves.;

flowers 5-merous, elliptic-oblong, with enlarged hypanthium and calyx straight to tapering distally, 2.5–2.8 mm, densely appressed-puberulent, sparsely so distally;

sepals whitish to green, veins absent, narrowly oblong to ovate-oblong, 1.5–1.7 mm, papery to herbaceous, margins white, 0.2–0.3 mm wide, papery, apex with subterminal awn, hood ascending as continuation of sepal, broadly rounded to notched, awn erect, white, 0.3–0.6(–1) mm, ± glabrous spine;

staminodes filiform, 0.7–0.9 mm;

style 1, cleft in distal 1/3, 0.8–1 mm.

5-merous, ± short-campanulate, with enlarged hypanthium and calyx widening distally, 2.4–3.2 mm, moderately pubescent proximately with antrorsely appressed to spreading hairs;

sepals green to tan, midrib and lateral pair of veins absent to evident, oblong, 1.2–1.3 mm, leathery to rigid, margins whitish to translucent, 0.05–0.1 mm wide, scarious, apex terminated by awn, hood ± obscure, narrowly rounded, awn widely divergent, 0.6–1.3 mm, broadly conic in proximal 1/3 with white to yellowish, scabrous spine;

staminodes subulate, 0.6–0.7 mm;

style 1, cleft in distal 1/2, 0.4–0.6 mm.

ovoid, 1.3–1.5 mm, smooth, glabrous.

ovoid-oblong, 1 mm, smooth, glabrous.

terminal and lateral, 5–20+-flowered, dichasial and rather diffuse, forming clusters 3–15 mm wide.

= 32.

= 64.