Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent to ascending or erect, branched, without noticeable ribs, glabrous, glandular-punctate.

procumbent, decumbent, ascending, or erect, simple or branched, without obvious ribs, glabrous or appressed-pubescent.

ocrea brown, cylindric or funnelform, (8–)10–15 mm, chartaceous, base inflated, margins truncate, ciliate with bristles 1–4 mm, surface glabrous or strigose, usually glandular-punctate;

petiole 0.1–0.8 cm, glandular-punctate, leaves sometimes sessile;

blade without dark triangular or lunate blotch adaxially, lanceolate to narrowly rhombic, (1.5–)4–10(–15) × 0.4–2.5 cm, base tapered or cuneate, margins antrorsely strigose, apex acute to acuminate, faces glabrous or scabrous along midveins, glandular-punctate, sometimes obscurely so adaxially.

ocrea light brown, cylindric, 4–10(–15) mm, chartaceous, base inflated, margins truncate, ciliate with hairs 1–3.5(–5) mm, surface glabrous or strigose, rarely with spreading hairs, not glandular-punctate;

petiole 0.1–0.8 cm, glabrous or strigose, leaves sometimes sessile;

blade often with dark triangular or lunate blotch adaxially, lanceolate to narrowly ovate, (1–)5–10(–18) × (0.2–)1–2.5(–4) cm, base tapered or cuneate, margins antrorsely strigose, apex acute to acuminate, faces glabrous or strigose, especially along midveins, sometimes glandular-punctate abaxially.

terminal and axillary, erect or nodding, interrupted or uninterrupted distally, 30–180 × 5–9 mm;

peduncle (0–)10–50 mm, sometimes absent on axillary inflorescences and flowers thus enclosed in ocreae, glabrous, glandular-punctate;

ocreolae not overlapping or overlapping distally, margins eciliate or ciliate with bristles to 1 mm.

terminal and axillary, erect, usually uninterrupted, 10–45(–60) × 7–12 mm;

peduncle 10–50 mm, glabrous or, rarely, pubescent;

ocreolae overlapping or sometimes interrupted proximally, margins ciliate with bristles 0.2–1.3(–2) mm.

ascending, 1–3 mm.

ascending, 1–2.5 mm.

1–3(–5) per ocreate fascicle, homostylous;

perianth greenish proximally, white or pink distally, glandular-punctate with punctae ± uniformly distributed, scarcely accrescent;

tepals 4–5, connate ca. 1/3 their length, petaloid, obovate, 2–3.5 mm, veins prominent or not, not anchor-shaped, margins entire, apex obtuse to rounded;

stamens 6–8, included;

anthers pink or red, elliptic to ovate;

styles 2–3, connate proximally.

4–14 per ocreate fascicle, homostylous;

perianth greenish white proximally and roseate distally or entirely roseate, not glandular-punctate, scarcely accrescent;

tepals 4–5, connate ca. 1/3 their length, obovate, 2–3.5 mm, veins prominent, not anchor-shaped, margins entire, apex obtuse to rounded;

stamens 4–8, included;

anthers yellow or pink, ovate;

styles 2–3, connate proximally.

included or apex exserted, brownish black, biconvex or 3-gonous, 1.9–3 × 1.5–2 mm, dull, minutely roughened.

included or apex exserted, brownish black to black, discoid or biconvex to 3-gonous, (1.9–)2–2.7 × (1.5–) 1.8–2.2 mm, shiny, smooth.

= 20.

= 44.