Flora of North America species comparison

petiolate;

petiole 1.5–3.5 cm, sometimes with pair of pinnatifid pseudostipules at base;

blade compound, elliptic to ovate, 7–15 × 4–9 cm, margins divided into 1–4(–5) pairs of leaflets, leaflet margins entire, base attenuate.

petiolate;

petiole 0.5–2.5 cm;

blade simple, elliptic to oblong, 2–5 × 1–3 cm, margins shallowly lobed to deeply and regularly pinnatifid with 3–6 lobes per side, lobe margins entire or occasionally coarsely lobed, base cuneate and decurrent.

terminal, extra-axillary, generally forked or 3-fid, 4–10(–20)-flowered, to 3 cm.

extra-axillary, unbranched, umbel-like, 1–6-flowered, 1–3 cm.

articulated near middle, 1.6–3 cm in flower and fruit.

spreading and 0.5–1.5 cm in flower, reflexed and 0.5–1.5 cm in fruit.

radially symmetric;

calyx not accrescent, unarmed, 4–6 mm, glabrous to sparsely pubescent, lobes deltate-acuminate;

corolla white, stellate, 2.8–3.5 cm diam., without interpetalar tissue;

stamens equal;

anthers oblong, slightly tapered, 5–6 mm, dehiscent by terminal pores that open into longitudinal slits;

ovary glabrous.

radially symmetric;

calyx accrescent and covering base of berry, unarmed, 2–4(–7) mm, moderately pubescent, lobes deltate, reflexed;

corolla white or light purple with green or purplish central star, stellate, 0.5–1 cm diam., with sparse interpetalar tissue;

stamens equal;

anthers narrowly ellipsoidal, 2.5–4 mm, dehiscent by terminal pores that open into longitudinal slits;

ovary glabrous.

green, globose, ca. 1 cm diam., glabrous, without sclerotic granules.

shiny dark green to purplish black, globose, 0.8–2 cm diam., glabrous, with 13–30 sclerotic granules.

dark reddish brown, rounded, 1–2 mm diam., rugose.

yellow, plump, 2–3 × 2–2.5 mm, minutely pitted.

= 24.

= 24.