Flora of North America species comparison

terete, not winged [narrowly winged], glabrous or scabridulous.

main stems angled, not winged, glabrous; ultimate branchlets subterete, narrowly winged, ± scabridulous.

distichous; all well developed;

stipules auriculate, pale brown or reddish brown;

blade elliptic or oblong to obovate, 5–20(–30) × 2–10(–15) mm, base acute, apex obtuse to rounded and apiculate, both surfaces glabrous or scabridulous.

on main stems spiral, scalelike;

stipules not auriculate, pale green to nearly white.;

leaves on ultimate branchlets distichous, well developed;

stipules not auriculate, pale green to nearly white;

blade elliptic-oblong, 6–11 × 3–5 mm, base cuneate to obtuse, apex rounded, both surfaces glabrous.

cymules, bisexual, with 1–3(–5) pistillate flowers and 1–2 staminate flowers.

cymules or flowers solitary, unisexual, proximal with 2–3 staminate flowers, distal with 1 pistillate flower.

staminate 0.5–1 mm, pistillate sharply reflexed in fruit, 0.5–1(–1.5) mm.

staminate 0.2–0.5 mm, pistillate spreading in fruit, 1.3–2 mm.

sepals (5–)6, pale yellowish green, flat, 0.5–0.7 mm;

nectary extrastaminal, 6 glands;

stamens 3, filaments distinct.

sepals 6, white to pale yellow, flat, 0.4–0.7 mm;

nectary extrastaminal, 6 glands;

stamens 3, filaments connate throughout.

sepals (5–)6(–7), green, often suffused with red, with scarious margins, flat, 0.6–1.4 mm, 1-veined;

nectary cupular or annular, lobed or unlobed.

sepals 6, green with broad white margins, flat, (1–)1.2–1.5 mm, 1-veined;

nectary annular, 6–9-lobed.

1.6–2 mm diam., smooth.

2.1 mm diam., smooth.

uniformly brown, 0.7–1.1 mm, verrucose.

uniformly brown, 0.9–1.1 mm, longitudinally ribbed.

= 36 (subsp. guianensis, West Indies).