Flora of North America species comparison

additionally with line of fine, curved, simple hairs extending from node to node and decurrent from leaf base;

older twigs brown or greenish brown to gray.

stipules narrowly triangular, 2–4.5 mm;

petiole mostly 1/4–3/4 blade, with line of fine, curved hairs adaxially;

blade broadly ovate to transversely broadly ovate, usually 3-lobed or 3-fid, mostly 1.2–4.5 × 1.2–4.3 cm, base cordate to truncate, rarely broadly cuneate, margins irregularly crenate to serrate, apex obtuse to broadly acute, apex of lateral lobes obtuse or broadly acute, surfaces scabridulous, hairs appressed-stellate, nectary present abaxially at base of midvein.

solitary flowers in axils of distal leaves.

jointed beyond middle, 2–5 cm, exceeding petioles and sometimes blades;

involucellar bractlets 9–11, linear to narrowly oblanceolate or subulate-linear, 0.5–0.9 cm, margins not or indistinctly ciliate.

nodding or pendulous;

calyx divided ± 1/2 length, narrowly campanulate, 0.7–1.2 cm, exceeding involucel, lobes narrowly triangular-ovate, apices acute or short-acuminate, nectaries absent;

corolla narrowly funnelform, petals bright red [pink], broadly oblanceolate, ± convolute, 1.5–2.6[–3.5] × 0.4–1.2 cm, margins ± entire, sparingly hairy abaxially where exposed in bud;

staminal column exserted, straight, bright red, 1.8–3.4 cm, bearing filaments on distal 1/2, free portion of filaments not secund, 2–3 mm;

pollen dark orange;

styles red, 1–3.5 mm;

stigmas red.

dull brown, ± globose, 0.9–1.1 cm, equaling or surpassing calyces, apex apiculate, coarsely stellate-hairy.

brown, angulately reniform-ovoid, 2–2.6 mm, pale silky-hairy ± throughout.

= 22 (Jamaica).