Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate to erect, often zigzagged, reddish brown, simple or branched from base, wiry, 2–30 cm, papillose-scabrid-ulous.

erect, color unknown, simple to profusely branched from near base, not wiry, 2–5 cm, glabrous.

evenly distributed or crowded at branch tips, articulated to ocreae, basal leaves persistent, hardly reduced distally;

ocrea 1–4 mm, papillose-scabridulous, proximal part cylindric, distal part entire or dentate-lacerate;

petiole 0.1–3 mm;

blade 1-veined, not pleated, narrowly elliptic, elliptic, ovate, obovate, or subround, 6–27 × 3–8 mm, margins flat, smooth, irregularly thickened or papillose-denticulate, apex apiculate, green adaxially.

persistence and crowded at brance tips, not articulated to ocreae;

ocrea 4–6 mm, glabrous, proximal part cylindric, distal part silvery, disintegrating nearly to base into straight fibers;

petiole absent;

blade 3-veined, without pleats, linear, 5–35 × 1–1.5 mm, margins revolute, smooth, apex acuminate.

axillary;

cymes from near stem and branch bases, sometimes also crowded at branch apices, 1–3-flowered.

axillary;

cymes insertion unknown, 1-flowered.

enclosed in ocreae, erect to spreading, 2–3 mm.

absent.

semi-open or closed;

perianth 1.8–2.5 mm;

tube 22–29% of perianth length;

tepals overlapping, greenish with narrow white or pink margins, almost sepaloid, oblong, cucullate, ± navicular, apex rounded;

midveins thickened, unbranched;

stamens 8.

closed;

perianth 2–3 mm;

tube 6–18 % of perianth length, tepals imbrication unknown, white with whitish or pink margins, petaloid, oblong, apex acute, mucronate;

midveins unbranched;

stamens 8;

anthers orange-pink.

enclosed in perianth or tip exserted, black, elliptic to ovate, 1.8–2.3 mm, faces subequal, smooth, shiny.

enclosed in perianth, olive brown, ovate, 2–2.3 mm, faces subequal, shiny, smooth.