Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent to ascending, usually branched, without noticeable ribs, glabrous or obscurely strigose distally.

ascending to erect, sometimes scandent, glabrous or retrorsely hispid.

ocrea brown, cylindric, 5–23 mm, chartaceous, base inflated, margins truncate, ciliate with bristles (2–)4–10 mm, surface glabrous or strigose, not glandular-punctate;

petiole 0.2–2 cm, glabrous or strigose;

blade without dark triangular or lunate blotch adaxially, broadly lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 5–25 × 0.4–3.7 cm, base tapered or acute, margins antrorsely appressed-pubescent, apex acuminate, faces glabrous or appressed-pubescent along midveins and sometimes on faces, usually punctate abaxially.

ocrea brownish, cylindric, 15–25(–50) mm, coriaceous proximally, chartaceous distally, base often inflated, margins oblique, eciliate, surface glabrous or pubescent;

petiole 1–2.5 cm, winged at least distally;

blade lanceolate to ovate or elliptic, 4–16 × 1.5–8 cm, base truncate to broadly cordate, margins glabrous or antrorsely scabrous with whitish hairs, apex acuminate, faces glabrous or hispid abaxially and adaxially, sometimes pubescent only along veins abaxially, not glandular-punctate but often minutely reddish-punctate abaxially.

terminal, sometimes also axillary, erect, uninterrupted or interrupted proximally, 30–80 × 2–5 mm;

peduncle 10–30 mm, glabrous or strigose;

ocreolae overlapping distally, often not overlapping proximally, margins ciliate with bristles to 2(–3) mm.

terminal or terminal and axillary, 3–6 × 3–6 mm;

peduncle 10–30 mm, stipitate-glandular along entire length;

ocreolae overlapping, margins eciliate.

ascending, 1–1.5 mm.

mostly ascending, 2–3 mm.

bisexual or unisexual and staminate, 2–6 per ocreate fascicle, homostylous;

perianth roseate proximally, roseate, white, or greenish white distally, not glandular-punctate or sometimes glandular-punctate with punctae on tubes and inner tepals, scarcely accrescent;

tepals 5, connate ca. 1/3–1/2 their length, obovate, 2.5–4 mm in bisexual flowers, 1.5–2.5 mm in staminate flowers, veins prominent or not, not anchor-shaped, margins entire, apex obtuse to rounded;

stamens 8, included or exserted in staminate flowers;

anthers pink or red, elliptic to ovate;

styles 3, connate near middle.

1–3 per ocreate fascicle;

perianth white to pink, campanulate, glabrous, accrescent;

tepals 5, ovate, 3–4 mm, apex acute to obtuse;

stamens 8, filaments distinct, free;

anthers red or purple, elliptic;

styles 3, connate proximally.

included or apex exserted, brown to brownish black or black, 3-gonous, 1.5–3 × 1–2.3 mm, shiny, smooth.

included in fleshy, bluish black perianth, black, 3-gonous, 2.8–4 × 2–3 mm, dull, minutely punctuate.