Flora of North America species comparison

ascending, usually branched proximally, scarcely ribbed, glabrous, glandular-punctate;

branches sometimes creeping and rooting at nodes.

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

ocrea light brown, cylindric, 10–15 mm, chartaceous, base inflated, margins truncate, ciliate with bristles 3–12 mm, surface strigose, glandular-punctate;

petiole 0.2–2 cm, glandular-punctate;

blade without dark triangular or lunate blotch adaxially, lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, 4–20 × 2–4.5 cm, base tapered, margins antrorsely strigose, apex acute to acuminate, faces glabrous or main veins scabrous, 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.

terminal and axillary, erect, uninterrupted, 20–80 × 5–10 mm;

peduncle 5–40 mm, glandular-punctate;

ocreolae usually overlapping, margins eciliate or proximal ones sometimes ciliate with bristles to 1 mm.

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

peduncle 2–20 mm, apex stipitate-glandular;

ocreolae overlapping, margins eciliate.

ascending to spreading, 2–5 mm.

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

2–4 per ocreate fascicle, homostylous;

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

tepals 5, connate ca.1/3 their length, obovate, 3.2–4.2 mm, veins prominent or not, not anchor-shaped, margins entire, apex obtuse to rounded;

stamens 6–8, included;

anthers pink or red, elliptic;

styles 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, dark brown to brownish black, 3-gonous, 2.7–3.6 × 2–2.5 mm, shiny, smooth.

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