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 2–5 cm;

blade simple to compound, broadly ovate, 8–15 × 3–8.5 cm, margins deeply lobed to divided with 4–7 lobes or leaflets per side, lobes or leaflets with rounded to acute lobes, base acute or cordate.

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

extra-axillary, unbranched, 4–11-flowered, 4–15 cm.

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

0.5–1 cm in flower, 1.5–2.5 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, moderately prickly, 6–9 mm, densely pubescent, hairs simple or sessile and stellate, glandular and eglandular, lobes subtending to almost completely and loosely covering fruit at maturity, deltate;

corolla white or pale blue, rotate-pentagonal, 2–3 cm diam., with abundant interpetalar tissue;

stamens equal or nearly so;

anthers narrow and tapered, 8–10 mm, dehiscent by terminal pores;

ovary glabrous to sparsely glandular-pubescent.

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

bright red, globose, 1–2 cm diam., glabrous to sparsely glandular-pubescent, juicy, without sclerotic granules.

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

pale yellow, plump, 3–3.5 × 2–3 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.