Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate, long-trailing;

branches yellow-brown, red-brown, or green-brown, glabrous;

branchlets yellow-green or yellow-brown to red-brown, (sometimes weakly glaucous), glabrous, (inner membranaceous bud-scale layer free, not separating from outer layer).

stipules rudimentary, absent, or foliaceous on early ones, foliaceous or rudimentary on late ones;

petiole 3–7.8–15 mm;

largest medial blade hypostomatous or hemiamphistomatous, elliptic, obovate, broadly elliptic, broadly obovate, subcircular, or oblanceolate, 15–31–60 × 6.5–16–35 mm, 1.2–3–4.3 times as long as wide, base cuneate, convex, or rounded, margins slightly revolute, inconspicuously crenulate or entire, apex usually acute or convex, sometimes rounded, abaxial surface glaucous, glabrous, adaxial slightly or highly glossy, glabrous;

proximal blade margins entire or serrulate;

juvenile blade glabrous.

abaxial nectary absent, adaxial nectary oblong, square, narrowly oblong, or ovate, 0.4–1 mm;

filaments distinct or connate less than 1/2 their lengths, glabrous, or hairy on proximal 1/2;

anthers ellipsoid or long-cylindrical, 0.5–0.7 mm.

abaxial nectary absent, adaxial nectary oblong or narrowly oblong, 0.5–0.9 mm, shorter than stipe;

stipe 0.8–1.4 mm;

ovary pyriform or obclavate, pubescent or short-silky, (refractive), hairs (white, grayish, or ferruginous), crinkled, often refractive, ribbonlike, beak gradually tapering to styles;

ovules 8–16 per ovary;

styles connate or distinct 1/2 their lengths, 0.6–1.4 mm;

stigmas slenderly or broadly cylindrical, 0.24–0.47–0.72 mm.

5–9 mm.

staminate 19–54 × 7–16 mm, flowering branchlet 4–20 mm; pistillate densely to moderately densely flowered, slender to subglobose, 30–79(–130 in fruit) × 10–20 mm, flowering branchlet 8–57 mm;

floral bract brown, black, or bicolor, 0.8–2.4 mm, apex rounded or acute, entire, abaxially densely hairy, hairs straight.

= 76.