Flora of North America species comparison

elongate, slender, 10–15 cm, bearing scattered, fibrous roots;

stolons present.

1, 1-branched, angled distally, 1–4.5 dm, nodes glabrous, bearing 1–2 leaves below lowest branch.

blades sessile, narrowly to broadly elliptic, 4–6.5(–8) × (1.3–)1.6–2.8(–4) cm, glabrous abaxially, margins minutely denticulate, apex acute to acuminate.

1 per stem;

peduncles 0.6–1.6 cm, ebracteate;

tepals pale straw-yellow, 13–25 × 2–4.5 mm, smooth abaxially, apex rounded to acute;

stamens 8–15 mm;

anthers 5–12 mm;

connectives 0.3–0.5 mm;

ovary stipitate, sharply triangular, flowering stipe 0.8–1.2 mm;

style 10–15 mm;

stigma lobes 1–2 mm.

sharply 3-winged, stipitate, ellipsoid, 2–3 × 1–1.6 cm, not beaked; fruiting stipe 2–5 mm.

3–5 mm;

arils crested.

= 14.