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 0.3–1.2 cm;

blade simple, deltate to hastate or triangular, sometimes linear, (1–)1.8–5 × (0.3–)1–3.5 cm, margins entire to basally 2-lobed, lobe margins entire, base truncate to subcordate or hastate.

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

terminal or lateral, leaf-opposed or occasionally extra-axillary, unbranched or occasionally forked, 3–6-flowered, 1–3 cm.

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

inserted into small sleeve on inflorescence axis, 0.6–1.2 cm in flower, 1–1.5 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 not accrescent, unarmed, 2.5–3.5 mm, glabrous to sparsely pubescent, lobes triangular-acuminate;

corolla white or tinged with purple, often with shiny green or greenish white eye, stellate, 1.5–2 cm diam., without interpetalar tissue;

stamens equal;

anthers oblong, slightly tapered, 3.5–4 mm, dehiscent by terminal pores that open into longitudinal slits;

ovary glabrous.

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

bright shiny red, globose, 1–1.5 cm diam., glabrous, without sclerotic granules.

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

reddish brown, plump-reniform to flattened, ca. 4 × 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.

, semiwoody or scramblers with enlarged woody base, to 2 m, occasionally erect subshrubs to 0.5 m, unarmed, glabrous to densely pubescent, hairs usually ascending and pointing distally on stems, weak, unbranched, to 0.5 mm.

= 24.

= 24.