Flora of North America species comparison

petiolate;

petiole 1–8 cm;

blade simple, elliptic to ovate, 11–31 × 4–14 cm, margins entire, base acute, often with smaller axillary leaves.

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.

terminal, becoming leaf-opposed, much-branched, 50–100-flowered, 5–24 cm.

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

erect and 0.2–0.5 cm in flower and fruit.

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

radially symmetric;

calyx slightly accrescent, unarmed, 4–7.5 mm, densely pubescent, lobes deltate;

corolla purple, stellate-pentagonal, 1–1.5 cm diam., with abundant interpetalar tissue;

stamens equal;

anthers oblong, 2–3.5 mm, dehiscent by terminal pores that open into longitudinal slits;

ovary tomentose.

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.

yellow, globose, 1–1.5 cm diam., tomentose, without sclerotic granules.

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

yellowish brown, flattened, 1.5–2.5 × 1.5–2 mm, minutely pitted.

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

= 24.

= 24.