Flora of North America species comparison

petiolate;

petiole 0.5–3 cm;

blade simple, ovate, 3.5–7 × 2.2–5 cm, margins entire to coarsely toothed with 3–5 lobes per side, base truncate to cuneate.

petiolate;

petiole 0.5–3(–7) cm;

blade simple, ovate, 1–5(–9) × 0.5–3(–6) cm, margins entire to coarsely and irregularly toothed, base truncate to acute and decurrent.

extra-axillary, unbranched or occasionally forked, racemelike, (3–)4–10-flowered, 1–2 cm.

extra-axillary or leaf-opposed, unbranched, racemelike, 2–7(–14)-flowered, 2–4 cm.

0.5–1 cm, spreading to occasionally recurved in flower and fruit.

0.5–1 cm in flower and fruit, nodding or deflexed downward in fruit.

radially symmetric;

calyx not accrescent, unarmed, 1.5–2 mm, sparsely pubescent, lobes deltate, spreading to reflexed in fruit;

corolla white with yellowish central star, stellate, 1–1.5 cm diam., without interpetalar tissue;

stamens equal;

anthers ellipsoidal, (1.8–)2–2.5 mm, dehiscent by terminal pores that open into longitudinal slits;

ovary glabrous.

radially symmetric;

calyx not accrescent, unarmed, 2–3 mm, sparsely pubescent, lobes deltate;

corolla white with yellow-green to brownish central star, stellate, 1–2 cm diam., without interpetalar tissue;

stamens equal;

anthers ellipsoidal and slightly tapered towards the tips, (2.5–)3–4.5 mm, dehiscent by terminal pores that open into longitudinal slits;

ovary glabrous.

dull or slightly shiny purple-black or green to yellowish green, globose, 0.5–1 cm diam., glabrous, without sclerotic granules.

dull purplish black, globose, 0.5–1 cm diam., glabrous, with (2–)6–8 sclerotic granules per fruit.

yellow, flattened, 1.8–2 × 1.5–1.6 mm, minutely pitted.

pale yellow to tan, flattened, 1.5–2 × 1–1.5 mm, finely reticulate.

= 72.

= 24.