Flora of North America species comparison

erect, spreading, or creeping, glabrous or hairy.

persistent or deciduous;

petiole absent or present;

blade elliptic or ovate to oblong-lanceolate or spatulate, membranous to coriaceous, margins entire or serrate, plane or, sometimes, revolute, surfaces glabrous or hairy;

venation brochidodromous.

blades usually pale green or glaucous abaxially, green adaxially, elliptic, 20–80 × 9–32 mm, ± membranous, margins usually entire, inrolled on more-coriaceous blades, surfaces glabrous or densely hairy, rarely glandular.

axillary or terminal, racemes, usually 2–10-flowered, sometimes flowers solitary, (leafy); (bracteoles absent, present in sect. Oxycoccos).

2–7-flowered, sometimes flowers solitary.

subtended by leaflike bract (ca. as long as flower).

sepals 4–5, connate basally;

petals 4–5(–6), connate nearly their entire lengths, sometimes distinct or nearly so, white or cream to pink, bronze, or green, rarely red, corolla globose, cylindric, urceolate, or campanulate, lobes shorter to longer than tube;

filaments straight, flat, glabrous or hairy, without spurs;

stamens 8–10, included (sometimes exserted);

anthers with or without awns, dehiscent by pores (pores laciniate in sect. Polycodium);

pistil 4–5-carpellate;

ovary inferior, 4–5-locular or pseudo 10-locular;

stigma capitate.

corolla lobes spreading at anthesis, white to greenish white, sometimes purple veined, 4–8 mm;

filaments glabrous or hairy.

baccate, ovoid to globose, fleshy.

green, yellow-green, yellow, purple, or black, often lightly glaucous, 7–18 mm diam., sometimes hairy and sparsely glandular.

2–40, ellipsoid;

testa reticulate.

= 12.

= 24.