Flora of North America species comparison

trailing to ascending, branched, 4-angled, 10–60 cm, glabrous.

diffusely branched, 4-angled, 3–30 cm, glabrous.

subsessile;

blade broadly elliptic to ovate, 0.4–2.6 cm × 2–15 mm, base round to cuneate, margins entire, apex acuminate, glabrous or with a few scattered cilia.

sessile or subsessile;

blade with midrib obscure, broadly elliptic-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, widest at or above middle, 0.2–0.8(–1.5) cm × to 2 mm, ± succulent, base cuneate, margins entire, apex acute to acuminate, glabrous;

leaf blades in terminal buds sometimes become fleshy and form gemmae.

with flowers solitary in leaf axils;

bracts absent.

with flowers usually solitary, terminal and in axils of distal leaves forming open, diffuse cymes;

bracts foliaceous, 1–10 mm; 1 or 2 pairs of bracteoles sometimes present, 1–3 mm, herbaceous or with narrow membranous margins.

ascending, straight, mostly 5–30 mm, glabrous.

erect or sharply angled at base, becoming sharply curved at apex, 3–40 mm, glabrous.

4–5 mm;

sepals 5, prominently 3-veined, lanceolate, 2–4 mm, margins broadly scarious, apex acute to acuminate, glabrous;

petals usually absent, rarely 1–5 and much shorter than sepals;

stamens 10 or fewer;

styles 3, spreading to ascending, curved but not curled, ca. 1 mm.

5–8 mm;

sepals 5, 3-veined, narrowly triangular-lanceolate, 3–3.5(–4) mm, margins straight, narrow, scarious, apex acute, glabrous or rarely margins pubescent;

petals 5, 2.5–5 mm, equaling to slightly longer than sepals;

stamens 5 or 10;

styles 3, ascending, curved at tip, ca. 2 mm.

straw colored or brownish, ovoid to ovoid-ellipsoid, 3.5–6 mm, equaling or slightly exceeding sepals, apex broadly acute, opening by 6 valves;

carpophore absent.

straw colored, conic to ellipsoid, 4–5 mm, longer than sepals, apex obtuse, opening by 6 valves;

carpophore absent.

brown, broadly elliptic, 0.7–1 mm (longest axis), distinctly rugose.

reddish brown, reniform to round, 0.7–1 mm diam., rugose.

= 26, 52.

= 26.