Flora of North America species comparison

terete, not winged, glabrous.

main stems and ultimate branchlets terete, not winged, glabrous.

spiral, all well developed;

stipules auriculate, pink or red to medium brown, with hyaline margins;

blade narrowly oblong to obovate, 5–10 × 1.5–5 mm, base obtuse, apex acute to mucronulate, both surfaces glabrous or scabridulous.

on main stems deciduous, spiral, scalelike;

stipules not auriculate, dark brown.;

leaves on ultimate branchlets deciduous with branchlets, distichous, well developed;

stipules not auriculate, dark brown;

blade broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, (40–)50–90 × (20–)25–45 mm, base obtuse or rounded, apex acute, both surfaces glabrous.

cymules or flowers solitary, unisexual or bisexual, with 1(–2) pistillate flowers and/or 1–3 staminate flowers.

cymules on leafless short shoots, on old wood bisexual with 1–9 pistillate flowers and 25–40 staminate flowers, on new growth bisexual on proximal shoots with 1–2 pistillate flowers and 8–12 staminate flowers, staminate on distal shoots with 8–12 flowers.

staminate 1.5–3.5 mm, pistillate spreading in fruit, 2.5–7 mm.

staminate 1.5–3 mm, pistillate spreading in fruit, 2.3–5(–6) mm.

sepals (5–)6, greenish yellow, sometimes suffused with red, with white margins, flat, 0.7–1.3 mm;

nectary extrastaminal, 6 glands;

stamens 3, filaments connate 2/3 length.

sepals 4, reddish purple with pink to white margins, flat, 1.1–1.4(–1.5) mm;

nectary extrastaminal, 4 glands;

stamens (3–)4, filaments distinct.

sepals (5–)6, green with white margins, flat, 1.5–2.5 mm, pinnately veined;

nectary annular, 6-lobed.

sepals 4, green to reddish purple with pink to white margins, flat, (1–)1.2–1.4 mm, 1-veined;

nectary annular, 4-lobed.

2.7–3.2 mm diam., smooth.

greenish yellow to white, (12–)15–20(–25) mm diam., smooth.

uniformly brown, (1.1–)1.2–1.4(–1.5) mm, irregularly verrucose.

uniformly brown, 3.3–3.5 mm, smooth.

= 16.

= 26 (West Indies).