Flora of North America species comparison

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

branched, 4-angled, 1–4 cm, glabrous;

branches erect or ascending, thickly clothed with marcescent leaves.

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;

basal blades oblanceolate to obovate or elliptic, 3–5 × 1–1.5 mm, succulent, base cuneate, margins entire, apex acute or abruptly acuminate to obtuse, glabrous;

cauline shorter.

with flowers solitary in leaf axils;

bracts absent.

solitary-flowered in axils of foliage leaves;

bract 1, foliaceous, ca. 1 mm.

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

1–5 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.

unisexual, 3–4 mm diam.;

sepals 5, 3-veined, keeled, 2.5–3 mm, margins narrow, apex acute, glabrous or with sparse, short, glandular pubescence;

petals absent;

stamens 10, shorter than sepals;

styles 3, erect, becoming outwardly curved, ca. 1 mm; staminate flowers with brownish, peglike, conspicuous nectaries alternating with and attached to base of stamens; pistillate flowers with well-developed but nonfunctional stamens and nectaries.

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, broadly ovoid, ca. 3 × 2 mm, ca. equaling sepals, apex obtuse, opening by 3 valves, each of which splits into 2;

carpophore absent.

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

1, brown, broadly reniform with thickened rim, ca. 1.1 mm diam., finely verrucate.

= 26, 52.

= 26.