Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate to ascending or erect, simple or branched, ribbed, glabrous or strigose to hirsute.

scandent, ribbed, glabrous;

prickles 1–1.5 mm.

ocrea tan to dark brown, cylindric or flared distally, 5–50 mm, chartaceous or, sometimes, foliaceous distally, base inflated, margins truncate to oblique, glabrous or ciliate with hairs 0.5–4.5 mm, surface glabrous or appressed-pubescent to hirsute, not glandular-punctate;

petiole 0.1–3(–7) cm, glabrous or appressed-pubescent to hirsute, leaves sometimes sessile;

blade without dark triangular or lunate blotch adaxially, ovate-lanceolate to elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, 2–15(–23) × 1–6(–8) cm, base usually tapered to acute or rounded, rarely cordate, margins antrorsely scabrous, apex acute to acuminate, faces glabrous or sparingly strigose, midveins glabrous or strigose, not glandular-punctate.

ocrea brownish, cylindric, (3–)5–13 mm, chartaceous, base inflated or not, without prickles, margins oblique, glabrous or ciliate at tip with bristles 0.2–1 mm, surface glabrous;

petiole 0.5–4 cm;

blade broadly lanceolate to oblong, 2–8.5 × 1–3 cm, base sagittate to cordate, margins entire, ciliate or eciliate, apex obtuse to acute, faces glabrous or densely appressed-pubescent, usually with retrorse prickles along midvein abaxially.

terminal, ascending to erect, uninterrupted or interrupted proximally, 10–150 × 8–20 mm;

peduncle 10–50 mm, glabrous or strigose to hirsute, often stipitate-glandular;

ocreolae overlapping except sometimes proximal ones, margins ciliate with bristles to 1 mm.

capitate or paniclelike, uninterrupted, 5–15 × 4–10 mm;

peduncle 10–80 mm, usually glabrous, sometimes with retrorse prickles proximally;

ocreolae overlapping, margins eciliate.

ascending, 0.5–1.5 mm.

mostly ascending, 1–1.5 mm.

bisexual or functionally unisexual, some plants having only staminate flowers, others with only pistillate flowers, 1–3(–4) per ocreate fascicle, heterostylous;

perianth roseate to red, glabrous, not glandular-punctate, slightly accrescent;

tepals 5, connate ca. 1/3 their lengths, obovate to elliptic, 4–6 mm, veins prominent, not anchor-shaped, margins entire, apex rounded to acute;

stamens 5, included or exserted;

anthers pink or red, elliptic;

styles 2, included or exserted, connate 1/2–2/3 their length.

2–3 per ocreate fascicle;

perianth white or greenish white, often tinged pink or red, sometimes entirely pink, glabrous, accrescent, not becoming blue and fleshy in fruit;

tepals 5, connate 1/3–1/2 their length, broadly elliptic, 3–5 mm, apex obtuse;

stamens 8, filaments distinct, free;

anthers pink, ovate;

styles 3, connate to middle.

included, dark brown, biconvex, (2–)2.2–3 × (1.5–)1.8–2.6 mm, shiny or dull, smooth or minutely granular.

included or styles exserted, light or dark brown to black, 3-gonous, 2.5–4 × 1.8–2.5 mm, dull to shiny, smooth to minutely punctate.

= 66, 132.

= 40.