Flora of North America species comparison

petiolate;

petioles twining around supports, 1–4 cm;

blade simple to compound, elliptic to broadly ovate, (2–)3.5–10(–13) × (1–)2–9(–11) cm, margins entire to divided with up to 4 pairs of leaflets, leaflet margins entire, base truncate or slightly cordate.

petiolate;

petiole 1.5–6 cm;

blade simple, ovate, 8–23 × 7–13 cm, margins coarsely lobed with 3–4 lobes per side, lobe margins entire to coarsely lobed, base cordate.

terminal, becoming lateral, extra-axillary, much-branched, to 100+-flowered, to 25+ cm.

extra-axillary or leaf-opposed, occasionally sessile, unbranched or forked, 6–15(–30)-flowered, 3.5–8 cm.

inserted into small sleeve on inflorescence axis, 0.8–1.4 cm in flower and fruit.

0.5–2 cm in flower, pendent and 2–3 cm in fruit.

radially symmetric;

calyx not accrescent, unarmed, ca. 0.5 mm, nearly truncate, glabrous or sparsely pubescent on lobe tips;

corolla purple, stellate, 1–2.5 cm diam., with sparse interpetalar tissue;

stamens unequal due to unequal filaments;

anthers ellipsoidal, 2–3 mm, dehiscent by terminal pores;

ovary glabrous.

radially symmetric;

calyx accrescent and subtending fruit, sparsely to moderately armed, 7–15 mm, densely stellate-pubescent, lobes broadly deltate;

corolla white to pale purple, rotate-stellate, 2.5–4 cm diam., with abundant interpetalar tissue;

stamens equal;

anthers narrow and tapered, 5.5–7 mm, dehiscent by terminal pores;

ovary moderately stellate-pubescent.

bright shiny red, globose, 0.8–1.5 cm diam., glabrous, without sclerotic granules.

yellow, dark green mottled with white when young, globose, 3.5–4(–5) cm diam., glabrous, without sclerotic granules.

pale yellowish tan, flattened, 4–4.5 × 2.5-3 mm, minutely pitted.

light brown, flattened, 2.5–3.5 × 2–2.5 mm, minutely pitted.

or scrambling vines, woody, unarmed, to ca. 3 m, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, hairs white, unbranched, ca. 0.2 mm.

= 24.

= 24.