Flora of North America species comparison

green to olive green, glabrous;

internodes terete, 5–20 × 1.5–2.5 mm.

green, glabrous;

internodes quadrangular proximally, flattened distally, keeled proximally to nodes, 20–30 × 3(–7) mm.

green to olive green, scalelike;

blade triangular, 2 mm, apex acute;

basal phyllotaxy transverse.

dull green, well developed;

petiole (3–)5(–8) mm;

blade obovate, elliptic, oblanceolate, or oblong-lanceolate, (40–)50.5(–90) × 20–40 mm, thin, base cuneate, apex rounded;

basal phyllotaxy median.

bisexual, staminate flowers few, irregularly placed among pistillate, to 25 mm;

peduncle with 1(–2) internodes, each 3 mm;

fertile internodes 3, each 6–18-flowered, biseriate, flowers 1–4 per column.

petals 3–4, 0.5–1 mm.

petals 3, 1 mm.

white or pinkish, globose to ellipsoid-globose, 4–5 × 3 mm, glabrous.

lemon yellow or orange [pink, red], ovoid to globose, 4 × 3 mm, glabrous.

inflorescences 3–5 mm;

peduncle with 1 internode, 3 mm;

fertile internode usually 1, 6-flowered, seriation unknown, flowers 3 (2 proximal, 1 distal) per bract.

inflorescences 3–5 mm;

peduncle with 1 internode, 2 mm;

fertile internode 1, 2-flowered, flowers 1 per bract.

= 28.