Flora of North America species comparison

petiolate;

petiole 0.5–5 cm;

blade simple, elliptic or ovate to cordate, 2.5–12 × 1.2–9 cm, margins entire to deeply pinnatifid and usually 3-lobed near base, lobe margins entire, base truncate to cordate.

petiolate;

petiole 0.5–2 cm;

blade simple, elliptic to elliptic-ovoid, 1–4.5 × 0.5–2.5 cm, margins entire, base rounded to obtuse and often decurrent.

terminal or lateral, extra-axillary, much-branched, 7–40-flowered, (1–)4–15 cm.

nearly sessile, extra-axillary or subopposite leaves, unbranched, racemelike, 1–5-flowered.

inserted into a small sleeve on the inflorescence axis, 0.6–1.2 cm in flower and fruit.

0.5–1.2 cm in flower, 1–2 mm and spreading or nodding in fruit.

radially symmetric;

calyx not accrescent, unarmed, 1–2 mm, glabrous to densely pubescent, lobes triangular, shallow;

corolla purple (rarely white), with green and white shiny spots at base of each lobe, deeply stellate, 1.5–2 cm diam., without interpetalar tissue;

stamens equal;

anthers oblong, slightly tapered, 4.5–6 mm, dehiscent by terminal pores that often open into longitudinal slits;

ovary glabrous.

radially symmetric;

calyx not accrescent, unarmed, 3–9 mm, moderately to densely pubescent, lobes linear-lanceolate;

corolla white, rotate, 0.5–1 cm diam., with abundant interpetalar tissue;

stamens equal;

anthers oblong, slightly tapered, 1.5–3 mm, dehiscent by terminal pores that open into longitudinal slits;

ovary glabrous.

bright shiny red, globose to ellipsoidal, 0.5–1.5 × 0.5–1 cm, glabrous, without sclerotic granules.

white to greenish and semitransparent, globose, 5–12 mm diam., glabrous, without sclerotic granules.

pale yellow or tan, flattened, 2–3 mm diam., minutely pitted.

light brown, somewhat flattened, ca. 2.5 × 1.5 mm, notched where connected to placenta, ridged.

, climbing or scrambling, herbaceous or woody, unarmed, to 8–10 m, sparsely to densely pubescent, hairs unbranched and/or dendritic, rarely glabrous.

= 24.