+
+|
+Species Name
+ |
+
+
+L. fortunensis
+
+ |
+
+
+L. multiflora
+
+ |
+
+
+L. howardiana
+
+ |
+
+
+L. porteriana
+
+ |
+
+
+|
+Trichome type
+ |
+Tan to pale yellow-orange |
+White, grey, pale |
+Pale yellow or yellow- |
+
+Light yellow to
+ |
+| orangesessile to short-stalked |
+yellow, or yellow- |
+orange sessile to stalked |
+brown sessile to stalked |
+
+
+
+
+| multangulate-stellate |
+orange sessile to short- |
+multangulate-stellate |
+multangulate-stellate |
+
+
+| trichomes, the rays often |
+stalked multangulate- |
+to geminate-stellate |
+trichomes, the rays often |
+
+
+| appressed to the plant surface, |
+stellate trichomes, the |
+trichomes, the rays often |
+appressed to the plant |
+
+
+| the rays sometimes crisped. |
+rays often appressed to |
+appressed to the plant |
+surface, the rays often |
+
+
+| the plant surface, the |
+surface, the rays often |
+crisped. |
+
+
+| rays often crisped. |
+crisped. |
+
+
+|
+Bud shape
+ |
+Buds oval to round, the apex |
+Buds conical, the apex |
+Buds conical, the apex |
+Buds conical, the apex |
+
+
+| rounded. |
+acute. |
+acute. |
+acute. |
+
+
+|
+Pedicel length
+ |
+(6) 9–17 mm in flower, (7) |
+5–15 mm in flower, to |
+5–10 mm in flower, to 15 |
+5–15 mm in flower, to 20 |
+
+
+| 11–26 mm long in fruit. |
+20 mm in fruit. |
+mm in fruit. |
+mm in fruit. |
+
+
+|
+Calyx margin
+ |
+Prominent, 0.5–2 mm long, |
+Not prominent, 0.25–0.5 |
+Somewhat prominent, 0.5– |
+Often prominent, 1–3 |
+
+
+| scarious, usually undulate or |
+mm long, not scarious, |
+1 mm long, not scarious, |
+mm long, often scarious, |
+
+
+| lobed to bilobed. |
+not undulate or lobed. |
+not undulate or lobed. |
+usually undulate or lobed. |
+
+
+|
+Appendage length
+ |
+Absent to a very slight raised |
+(0.5) 1–4 (6) mm long |
+4–8 mm long in flower, to |
+4–11 mm long in flower, |
+
+
+| area in flower, absent or to 0.5 |
+in flower, to 5mm long |
+12 mm long in fruit. |
+not elongating in fruit. |
+
+
+| mm in fruit. |
+in fruit. The appendages |
+
+
+| rarely lacking. |
+
+
+|
+Inflorescence in
+ |
+Leaves around the maturing |
+Leaves around the |
+Leaves around the |
+Leaves around the |
+
+
+|
+fruit
+ |
+fruits often missing, appearing |
+maturing fruits often |
+maturing fruits usually |
+maturing fruits usually |
+
+
+| like a terminal panicle. |
+missing, appearing like |
+present, not appearing like |
+present, not appearing |
+
+
+| a terminal panicle. |
+a terminal panicle. |
+like a terminal panicle. |
+
+
+|
+Corolla
+ |
+0.8–1.6 cm long, adaxially |
+0.8–1.7 cm long, |
+1–2 cm long, adaxially |
+0.8–1.7 cm long, |
+
+
+| white to light pink, sometimes |
+adaxially white to |
+white to lavender, |
+adaxially white, abaxially |
+
+
+| tinged purple basally, |
+pale violet, abaxially |
+abaxially densely |
+densely pubescent on the |
+
+
+| abiaxially densely pubescent |
+sparsely to densely |
+pubescent on the lobes. |
+lobes. |
+
+
+| on the lobes. |
+pubescent on the lobes. |
+
+
+|
+Anther length
+ |
+3.5–4 mm long |
+3–4 mm long |
+4–5 mm long |
+4.5–5 mm long |
+
+
+|
+Seed shape
+ |
+Flattened, circular, triangular |
+Flattened, circular |
+Flattened, circular to |
+Seeds not seen. |
+
+
+| or depressed ovate in outline |
+to depressed ovate, |
+depressed ovate, not |
+
+
+| sometimes notched. |
+sometimes shallowly |
+indented on one side. |
+
+
+| indented on one side. |
+
+
+