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 1.5–6 cm;

blade simple, ovate, 8–23 × 7–13 cm, margins coarsely lobed with 3–4 lobes per side, lobe margins entire to coarsely lobed, base cordate.

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

extra-axillary or leaf-opposed, occasionally sessile, unbranched or forked, 6–15(–30)-flowered, 3.5–8 cm.

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

0.5–2 cm in flower, pendent and 2–3 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 and subtending fruit, sparsely to moderately armed, 7–15 mm, densely stellate-pubescent, lobes broadly deltate;

corolla white to pale purple, rotate-stellate, 2.5–4 cm diam., with abundant interpetalar tissue;

stamens equal;

anthers narrow and tapered, 5.5–7 mm, dehiscent by terminal pores;

ovary moderately stellate-pubescent.

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

yellow, dark green mottled with white when young, globose, 3.5–4(–5) cm diam., glabrous, without sclerotic granules.

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

light brown, flattened, 2.5–3.5 × 2–2.5 mm, minutely pitted.

= 24.

= 24.