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 or sessile;

petiole to 1 cm;

blade simple, rhombic, 4–13 × 3–8 cm, margins entire or with 2–5 shallow lobes per side, lobe margins entire, base cuneate and decurrent.

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

extra-axillary, unbranched, 5–15-flowered, 1–3 cm.

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

0.5–1 cm in flower, 1–1.5 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, 2–7 mm, moderately to densely stellate-pubescent, hairs long-stalked, lobes linear;

corolla white, stellate, 1–2 cm diam., without interpetalar tissue;

stamens equal;

anthers narrow and tapered, 3.5–5 mm, dehiscent by terminal pores;

ovary glabrous to very sparsely glandular-puberulent.

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

bright shiny red to orange, globose, 0.4–1.2 cm diam., glabrous, without sclerotic granules.

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

yellow, flattened, 1–1.5 × 0.5–1 mm, minutely pitted and ridged.

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

= 24.

= 24.