Flora of North America species comparison

erect or semi-prostrate;

branches gray-brown or red-brown, glabrous or woolly to glabrescent;

branchlets reddish, densely woolly (hairs spreading).

stipules absent, rudimentary, or foliaceous on early ones, foliaceous on late ones (apex acuminate);

petiole 1.5–8 mm, glabrous adaxially;

largest medial blade lorate, narrowly oblong, narrowly elliptic, narrowly oblanceolate, or linear, 30–133 × 5–20 mm, 3.4–8–15 times as long as wide, base cuneate or convex, margins flat, spinulose-serrulate or entire, apex acute, acuminate, or convex, abaxial surface glaucous or not, pilose, villous, or long-silky to glabrescent, hairs appressed or spreading, wavy, adaxial slightly glossy, villous to glabrescent;

proximal blade margins entire or serrulate;

juvenile blade reddish or yellowish green, densely villous abaxially.

stipules absent or rudimentary;

petiole (shallowly grooved adaxially), 0–3 mm;

largest medial blade narrowly oblong, narrowly elliptic, elliptic, oblanceolate, or obovate, 25–87 × 10–30 mm, 2–3.9 times as long as wide, base cuneate or convex, margins flat, entire or serrulate, apex rounded to convex, abaxial surface glabrous, adaxial dull, glabrous;

proximal blade margins entire or serrulate;

juvenile blade glabrous.

abaxial nectary 0.3–0.9 mm, adaxial nectary narrowly oblong, oblong, or flask-shaped, 0.4–1.2 mm, nectaries distinct;

filaments densely hairy on proximal 1/2;

anthers 0.55–0.7–0.9 mm.

abaxial nectary 0.4–0.8 mm, adaxial nectary narrowly oblong, oblong, or ovate, 0.6–1 mm, nectaries distinct, or connate and shallowly cup-shaped;

filaments distinct, glabrous or hairy basally or on proximal 1/2;

anthers long-cylindrical, 0.6–0.8 mm.

adaxial nectary ovate, oblong, or flask-shaped, 0.4–1.1 mm, longer than stipe, nectaries distinct or connate and cup-shaped;

stipe 0–0.7 mm;

ovary obclavate or pyriform, glabrous, beak abruptly tapering to styles;

ovules 13–22 per ovary;

styles 0–0.14–0.5 mm;

stigmas slenderly cylindrical or 2 plump lobes, 0.2–0.5 mm.

adaxial nectary oblong, 0.8–1.3 mm, equal to or longer than stipe;

stipe 0–0.6 mm;

ovary obclavate or ovoid, beak abruptly tapering to styles;

ovules 16–23 per ovary;

styles distinct, 0.3–0.4 mm;

stigmas flat, abaxially non-papillate with pointed tip, or slenderly cylindrical, 0.32–0.47–0.6 mm.

4–5 mm.

3.6–10 mm.

staminate 18–48 × 5–13 mm, flowering branchlet 3–15 mm; pistillate moderately densely flowered, slender or stout, 22–58 × 4–9 mm, flowering branchlet 4–12 mm;

floral bract (sometimes brown), 1.3–2.8 mm, apex rounded (sometimes truncate), entire or erose, abaxially hairy mainly proximally, hairs wavy.

(sometimes branched); staminate 12–27 × 6–10 mm, flowering branchlet 3–8 mm; pistillate densely flowered, stout or subglobose, 20–34 × 6–13 mm, flowering branchlet 5–19 mm;

floral bract tawny or greenish, translucent, 2–3.6 mm, apex rounded or truncate, erose, sinuate, irregularly toothed, or entire, abaxially glabrous.

= 38.