Flora of North America species comparison

erect, stellate-tomentose.

ascending to erect, with stellate 0.1 mm hairs and glandular hairs.

stipules free from petiole, 1-veined, linear, 5–8 mm, shorter than petiole;

petiole 10–25 mm, to 1/2 length of blade, stellate-tomentose;

blade broadly cordate to ovate-lanceolate, to 6 cm, reduced distally, 1–2 times longer than wide, base cordate, margins dentate to base, apex acute, surfaces softly velvety-tomentose.

stipules free from petiole, 1-veined, subulate, 3–4 mm, 1/2–1 times length of petiole;

petiole 6.3–40 mm, 1/4–1/2 length of blade, minutely stellate-hairy;

blade narrowly linear, 2.5–8 cm, 6–20 times longer than wide, base truncate, margins dentate to base, apex subacute, surfaces stellate-hairy.

axillary, usually subsessile, crowded panicles or corymbs, sometimes solitary flowers.

axillary solitary flowers.

0.2–0.4 cm, enlarging slightly in fruit, shorter than calyx.

slender, 8–12(–16) cm, usually 2+ times length of subtending leaves, much longer than calyx.

calyx prominently ribbed, 6–7 mm, densely stellate-tomentose, lobes ovate;

petals yellow-orange, often with darker reddish base, 8–11 mm;

staminal column hairy;

style 8–14-branched.

calyx obscurely 10-ribbed basally, 6–8 mm, stellate-hairy, lobes triangular;

petals pale orange, 12 mm;

staminal column minutely hairy;

style 8–10-branched.

oblate-conic, 6–7 mm diam., apically hairy;

mericarps 8–14, 4–5 mm, dorsally smooth, apex spined, spines to 2 mm, retrorsely barbed (variably developed, rarely suppressed).

subconic, 5–7 mm diam., minutely glandular-puberulent to subglabrous;

mericarps 8–10, 3.5 mm, strongly reticulate laterally, apex muticous.

= 28.