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 1–1.5 cm;

blade simple, elliptic, 10–30 × 1.5–15 cm, margins entire to coarsely pinnatifid with 1–3 lobes per side, lobe margins entire, base cuneate.

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

leaf-opposed or in branch forks, unbranched or forked, to 10-flowered, 5–15 cm.

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

1.5–3 cm in flower and 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 somewhat accrescent, unarmed, 3–4 mm, glabrous, lobes deltate;

corolla blue to deep purple, rotate-stellate, 3–5 cm diam., lobes notched at apex, with abundant interpetalar tissue;

stamens equal;

anthers oblong, slightly tapered, 3–4 mm, dehiscent by terminal pores that sometimes open into longitudinal slits;

ovary glabrous.

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

yellow to orange-yellow, ovoid to obovoid, 1.5–2 × 1–1.5 cm, glabrous, with abundant sclerotic granules.

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

reddish brown, flattened, 2.5–3 × 2–2.5 mm, concentrically reticulate.

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

= 24.

= 92.