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;

petioles 0.5–1.5 cm;

blade simple, ovate to elliptic, (1–)2–6.5 × (0.5–)1–3(–4.5) cm, margins entire or undulate, base rounded to truncate and usually oblique.

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

extra-axillary, unbranched, 3–4-flowered, 3–4 cm.

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

0.4–1.5 cm in flower, erect and 1–2 cm 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, 8–10(–20) mm, densely stellate-pubescent, lobes long-triangular to linear-lanceolate;

corolla violet, pentagonal, 2.5–4(–5) cm diam., with abundant interpetalar tissue;

stamens equal or slightly unequal;

anthers narrow and tapered, 6–10 mm, dehiscent by terminal pores;

ovary glabrous.

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

light green, sometimes with darker mottling, drying dark brown or reddish brown, globose, 1–1.5(–2) cm diam., glabrous, cracking open to expose seeds, without sclerotic granules.

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

dark brown, flattened, 2–3 mm diam., minutely pitted.

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

= 24.