Flora of North America species comparison

several, erect, simple, 15–50 cm, puberulent, viscid-glandular distally.

straggling to erect, much-branched, elongate, 20–70 cm, sparsely retrorse-puberulent.

mostly basal;

basal marcescent, long-petiolate, densely tufted, blade 1-veined, narrowly oblanceolate, 2–10(–20) cm × 2–12(–20) mm, not fleshy, base tapering to petiole, apex acute to obtuse, finely puberulent on both surfaces;

cauline in 1–3 pairs, sessile, much reduced, blade linear-lanceolate, not fleshy.

2 per node, sessile with spatulate, broad, ciliate base, blade oblanceolate, 1.3–5 cm × 4–15 mm, apex acuminate, glabrous or sparsely setose.

1–5(–7)-flowered, with terminal flower and lateral, open, pedunculate cymes often reduced to single flowers, bracteate;

bracts narrowly lanceolate, 3–10(–20) mm.

cymose, open, compound, pedunculate;

bracts leaflike, lanceolate, 3–15 mm, apex acuminate;

peduncle ascending, elongate, viscid stipitate-glandular.

erect, elongate, 0.5–4.5 cm, glandular-puberulent.

ascending, elongate, viscid stipitate-glandular.

calyx prominently 10-veined, those to lobes lance-shaped broadened and thickened distally, commissural veins slender, not forked distally, campanulate, 10–12 × 3.5–5 mm in flower, enlarging to 15 × 10 mm in fruit, not contracted around carpophore, papery, margins dentate, glandular-pubescent, viscid, veins parallel, with pale commissures, lobes patent, ovate, 1.5–4 mm, rigid, margins broad, membranous;

corolla off-white to dingy purple-red, clawed, claw exceeding calyx, ciliate proximally, broadened distally, limbs erect, 2–4-lobed, less than 1/2 length of calyx, lobes 2–5 mm, appendages 2–4, 0.5–1 mm;

stamens slightly exserted;

filaments lanate, expanded at base;

styles 3–5, ± equaling calyx.

calyx prominently 10-veined, clavate, with long, slender tube surrounding carpophore, 17–20 × 4–6 mm, veins parallel, green or purple with purple stipitate glands, with pale commissures, lobes lanceolate, 2–3 mm, margins ciliate, apex acute;

corolla bright pink, clawed, claw slightly longer than calyx, limb obovate, unlobed, ca. 1 cm, appendages 2, oblong, 2 mm, entire;

stamens included in tip of calyx tube;

styles 3, exserted.

slightly longer than calyx, opening by 3–5 teeth;

carpophore 1.5–2.5 mm.

ovoid, slightly longer than calyx, opening by 6 recurved teeth;

carpophore 9–10 mm, pubescent.

brown, reniform, 1.2–2 mm, margins with large, inflated papillae, rugose on sides.

dull and very dark brown, almost globose, inrolled like a clenched fist, 1–1.3 mm, sides with radiating wrinkles, finely tuberculate abaxially.

= 48.

= 24 (Balearic Islands).