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 2–10 cm;

blade compound, elliptic, 10–30+ × 5–25 cm, margins divided with 3(–5) pairs of leaflets, interspersed with smaller interjected leaflets, leaflet margins toothed, base truncate to cordate.

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

lateral, extra-axillary, simple or rarely forked, 4–15-flowered, to 10 cm.

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

articulated near middle, 0.5–2 cm in flower, to 3 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, unarmed, 5–25 mm, lobes 5–7, lanceolate-acuminate;

corolla yellow, pentagonal to stellate, 1–3 cm diam., with interpetalar tissue at margins and bases of lobes;

stamens equal;

anthers narrow and tapered, 6–11 mm, each with a sterile apical appendage, dehiscent by oblong pores that open into introrse, longitudinal slits;

ovary glabrous or glandular-puberulent.

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

usually red, orange, or yellow, globose to ellipsoid or obovoid, 1.5–12 cm diam., glabrous, without sclerotic granules.

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

pale brown, flattened, 2–4 × 1.5–2 mm, pubescent.

= 24.

= 24.