Flora of North America species comparison

stipules persistent, elliptic, 0.7–1 × 0.5–0.7 mm;

petiole 2–7 cm, glands 2, discoid, adaxial;

blade ovate to broadly elliptic or rhomboid, 3.5–10 × 3–9.5 cm, base broadly cuneate to nearly truncate, apex acuminate;

laminar glands 0–10, elliptic, 0.3 × 0.2 mm, usually on distal 1/2 of leaf.

to 20 cm; staminate cymules numerous, 10–20 flowered, bracts ovate, 1.5 mm, subtended by 2[–4] ellipsoid glands; pistillate flowers 0–6 per inflorescence, 1 per bract (often in bisexual cymules with 0–5 staminate flowers), bracts of basal flowers usually not subtended by ellipsoid glands.

staminate 1.5–3 mm; pistillate 1–2 mm, to 12 mm in fruit.

yellow;

sepals 0.5–1 mm, shallowly 3-lobed, margins erose;

filaments to 0.2–0.3 mm;

anthers 0.5 mm.

yellowish green;

sepals 2–3 × 1 mm, apex acuminate;

styles 4–8 mm, coiled distally.

1–1.3 cm diam., subglobose, trigonous;

columella 1 cm.

6–9 × 4–7 mm, usually remaining attached to columella;

outer seed coat white, waxy;

inner coat woody, brown, smooth.

= 88.