Flora of North America species comparison

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

decumbent to ascending, glabrous except for fleshy, retrorse, whitish hairs at nodes.

ocrea brown, cylindric, (4–)9–18 mm, chartaceous, base inflated, margins truncate, ciliate with bristles 2–11 mm, surface glabrous or strigose, glandular-punctate;

petiole 0.1–1 cm, glandular-punctate, leaves sometimes sessile;

blade without dark triangular or lunate blotch adaxially, lanceolate to lanceolate-ovate or subrhombic, 4–10(–15) × 0.6–2.4 cm, base tapered or cuneate, margins antrorsely strigose, apex acute to acuminate, faces glabrous or scabrous along midveins, glandular-punctate.

ocrea brownish or hyaline, cylindric to funnelform, 4–10 mm, chartaceous, base inflated or not, margins oblique, eciliate, surface glabrous or with bristlelike hairs proximally;

petiole 0.1–3 cm, winged to base, leaves sometimes sessile;

blade ovate-deltate, 1.5–5 × 1–4 cm, base rounded to truncate, margins glabrous or scabrous, apex acute, faces pilose and glandular-punctate abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

mostly terminal, sometimes also axillary, erect, interrupted, 50–200 × 4–8 mm;

peduncle 30–60 mm, glabrous, glandular-punctate;

ocreolae mostly not overlapping, margins mostly ciliate with bristles to 2 mm.

terminal and axillary, 5–10 × 5–10 mm;

peduncle 2–20 mm, apex stipitate-glandular;

ocreolae overlapping, margins eciliate.

ascending, 1–4 mm.

mostly ascending, 0.1–1 mm, flowers sometimes sessile.

2–6 per ocreate fascicle, homostylous;

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

tepals 5, connate ca. 1/3 their length, obovate, 3–3.5 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.

1–2 per ocreate fascicle;

perianth white to pink or lavender, urceolate, glabrous, scarcely accrescent;

tepals 4(–5), oblong to broadly elliptic, 2.5–3 mm, apex acute to obtuse;

stamens (5–)8, filaments distinct, free;

anthers purplish black, elliptic;

styles 2, connate proximally.

included or apex exserted, brownish black, usually 3-gonous, rarely biconvex, (1.8–)2.2–3.2 × 1.5–2.2 mm, shiny, smooth.

included, dark brown to black, biconvex, 1.5–2 × 1–1.5 mm, dull, minutely punctate.

= 44.