Flora of North America species comparison

petiolate;

petiole 0.5–2.5 cm;

blade simple, elliptic to oblong, 2–5 × 1–3 cm, margins shallowly lobed to deeply and regularly pinnatifid with 3–6 lobes per side, lobe margins entire or occasionally coarsely lobed, base cuneate and decurrent.

petiolate;

petiole 1–10 cm;

blade simple, elliptic to ovate, 10–25 × 3–15 cm, margins entire, base rounded or acute.

extra-axillary, unbranched, umbel-like, 1–6-flowered, 1–3 cm.

terminal, becoming leaf-opposed, much-branched, 10–50-flowered, 5–20 cm.

spreading and 0.5–1.5 cm in flower, reflexed and 0.5–1.5 cm in fruit.

0.2–0.6 cm in flower, erect and 0.4–10 cm in fruit.

radially symmetric;

calyx accrescent and covering base of berry, unarmed, 2–4(–7) mm, moderately pubescent, lobes deltate, reflexed;

corolla white or light purple with green or purplish central star, stellate, 0.5–1 cm diam., with sparse interpetalar tissue;

stamens equal;

anthers narrowly ellipsoidal, 2.5–4 mm, dehiscent by terminal pores that open into longitudinal slits;

ovary glabrous.

radially symmetric;

calyx accrescent and subtending fruit, unarmed, 5–7 mm, densely pubescent, hairs stellate to echinoid, lobes broadly triangular;

corolla white, stellate, 1–2 cm diam., without interpetalar tissue;

stamens equal;

anthers oblong, 2.5–3.5 mm, dehiscent by terminal pores that open into longitudinal slits;

ovary tomentose, hairs stellate or echinoid.

shiny dark green to purplish black, globose, 0.8–2 cm diam., glabrous, with 13–30 sclerotic granules.

yellow to orange, globose, 1–2 cm diam., densely pubescent, without sclerotic granules.

yellow, plump, 2–3 × 2–2.5 mm, minutely pitted.

yellowish brown, flattened, 1.5–2 × 1–1.5 mm, minutely pitted.

= 24.

= 24.