Flora of North America species comparison

petiolate;

petiole 1–5 cm;

blade simple, ovate to elliptic, 7–23 × 4–14 cm, margins subentire to coarsely lobed with 3–4 lobes per side, lobe margins entire to coarsely lobed, base truncate to subcordate and asymmetrical.

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 branched, 10–20-flowered, to 6 cm.

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

1–1.5 cm in flower, erect and 1.5–2.5 cm in fruit.

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

radially symmetric;

calyx slightly accrescent, unarmed, 4–8 mm, sparsely to moderately pubescent with unbranched, gland-tipped hairs, lobes lanceolate;

corolla white, stellate, 2–3 cm diam., with sparse interpetalar tissue;

stamens equal;

anthers narrow and tapered, 6–9 mm, dehiscent by terminal pores;

ovary glabrous or glandular-puberulent at apex.

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.

green to yellow, globose, 1–1.5 cm diam., glabrous, without sclerotic granules.

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

light brown, flattened, 2.5–3 × 2–2.5 mm, minutely pitted.

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

= 24.

= 24.