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 1–8 cm;

blade simple, elliptic to ovate, 11–31 × 4–14 cm, margins entire, base acute, often with smaller axillary leaves.

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

terminal, becoming leaf-opposed, much-branched, 50–100-flowered, 5–24 cm.

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

erect and 0.2–0.5 cm in flower and 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 slightly accrescent, unarmed, 4–7.5 mm, densely pubescent, lobes deltate;

corolla purple, stellate-pentagonal, 1–1.5 cm diam., with abundant interpetalar tissue;

stamens equal;

anthers oblong, 2–3.5 mm, dehiscent by terminal pores that open into longitudinal slits;

ovary tomentose.

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

yellow, globose, 1–1.5 cm diam., tomentose, without sclerotic granules.

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

yellowish brown, flattened, 1.5–2.5 × 1.5–2 mm, minutely pitted.

= 24.

= 24.