Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate, glabrous or glandular-pubescent.

prostrate or decumbent to ascending or erect, branched, unarmed.

ocrea brown or reddish brown, cylindric to funnelform, 5–12 mm, chartaceous, base inflated or not, margins oblique, eciliate or ciliate with bristles to 1.5 mm, surface lanate, sometimes also glandular-pubescent;

petiole 2–5 mm, winged distally;

blade ovate to elliptic, 1.5–4(–6) × 0.6–2.5(–3.3) cm, base cuneate or tapering, margins ciliate with reddish, multicellular hairs, apex acute, faces glandular-pubescent abaxially and adaxially, not glandular-punctate.

ocrea usually chartaceous, rarely coriaceous proximally and chartaceous distally, margins eciliate or ciliate;

petiole usually winged, auriculate;

blade usually with dark triangular or lunate blotch adaxially, broadly elliptic to ovate, base cordate, rounded, truncate, or cuneate, margins entire.

terminal, 5–20 × 7-18 mm;

peduncle 10–40 mm, glabrous or stipitate-glandular in distal 1/5;

ocreolae overlapping, margins eciliate.

terminal or terminal and axillary, capitate, uninterrupted.

spreading, 0.5–1 mm.

1–5 per ocreate fascicle;

perianth greenish white proximally, pinkish distally, urceolate, glabrous, nonaccrescent;

tepals 5, elliptic, 2–3 mm, apex acute to obtuse;

stamens 8, filaments distinct, free;

anthers pink to red, elliptic;

styles 3, connate to middle or distally.

homostylous, articulation swollen or not;

perianth urceolate or campanulate;

tepals (4–)5, connate 1/3–1/2 their length;

stamens (5–)8;

styles deciduous, 2–3, included, spreading.

included, reddish brown to brownish black, 3-gonous, 1.5–2.2 × 1–1.5 mm, shiny, smooth or minutely punctate.