Flora of North America species comparison

slender.

erect to prostrate, branched, terete.

connate proximally, sessile;

blade 1-veined, subulate to linear, not succulent, apex acute or obtuse.

terminal or axillary, lax to dense cymes;

bracts paired, foliaceous.

sessile to subsessile;

perianth and androecium perigynous;

hypanthium urceolate, abruptly expanded distally;

sepals 5, distinct, greenish, lanceolate to awl-shaped, 1.5–4 mm, herbaceous, margins whitish, scarious, apex acute to blunt or obtuse;

petals absent; nectariferous disc at base of stamens;

stamens 2–10, arising from hypanthium rim;

filaments distinct;

staminodes absent or 5–8, arising from hypanthium rim, filiform;

styles 2, capitate, 0.8–1 mm, glabrous proximally;

stigmas 2, terminal, minutely papillate (50x).

1, yellowish, globose, not compressed, smooth, marginal wing absent, appendage absent.

ovoid, enclosed in persistent, indurate, shallowly or strongly furrowed, sepal-crowned hypanthium and falling with it, the whole constituting the indehiscent “fruit”;

carpophore present.

= 11 [12].