Flora of North America species comparison

erect, green, often tinted pale brick-red proximally, finely stellate-pubescent (some parts ciliate, and minute simple hairs sometimes present), hairs 0.1–1 mm diam., 2(–5)-rayed.

stipules falcate, ovate-lanceolate, 5–6 × 2–2.5 mm;

proximal petioles (3.5–)5–6.5(–9) cm, 1/2–3 times as long as blade, shortest (0.5–)1–2(–3.2) cm on distalmost leaves;

blade usually flabelliform or reniform, often wider than long, rounded at apex, base wide-cuneate to wide-cordate, unlobed, margins coarsely crenate-dentate;

proximal (2–)3–4.5 × (2.3–)3–5.5 cm, surfaces stellate-hairy, hairs 2–3(4)-rayed, hairs usually not overlapping, sparser adaxially.

erect or ascending, often 8 racemes present per major stem, each terminating a stem branch, flowers apically congested and not or only slightly elongating in age, unbranched or few-branched, (1.5–)3.5–5(–7.5) cm (excluding peduncle if present);

bracts paired and distinct to base, or 2-fid or undivided distally, narrowly lanceolate to oblanceolate, 5–6(–8) × 1–1.5 mm, (1–)2 times longer than pedicels, slightly shorter than calyx.

1.5–2 mm, usually not obscured by bracts;

involucellar bractlets 2(3), linear to narrowly lanceolate, 4–5 × 0.2–1 mm, slightly shorter than calyx.

bisexual or unisexual and pistillate, plants gynodioecious;

calyx 5–6 mm, finely stellate-hairy, often sparsely so;

petals white to very pale pink, pistillate 6 mm, bisexual 10–11 mm;

staminal column 5–6 mm, minutely hairy;

anthers white;

stigmas 6–8.

1.5–2 mm.

5–7 mm diam.;

mericarps 6–8, 2 mm, back and margins corrugated-ridged and with medial ridge.