Flora of North America species comparison

unbranched or branched proximally, (0.4–)1.5–3(–5) dm, pubescent.

soon withered.

petiolate or (distal) subsessile;

petiole (0.1–)0.6–2(–3) cm;

blade elliptic, oblanceolate, or oblong, (0.5–)1.5–6(–10) cm × (3–)10–25(–35) mm (smaller distally), base cuneate, apex acute.

rachis straight or slightly flexuous.

sepals sometimes persistent, (3.5–)4–5 × 0.5–0.7 mm;

petals narrowly oblanceolate, (6.5–)8–10(–12) × 1–2 mm;

filaments distinct, 2.5–5 mm;

anthers narrowly oblong, 0.9–1.1 mm.

0.5–2(–4) mm.

divaricate-ascending, straight, (2.5–)3.5–5.5(–7) cm × 1–1.3 mm;

valves usually pubescent, rarely glabrous, trichomes coarse and forked, these mixed with smaller, forked, subdendritic, or simple, subsetiform ones;

stigma to 1 mm.

1–1.2 × 0.5–0.6 mm.

= 14, 28.