UW Burke Herbarium species comparison

Leaves alternate, obovate to obovate-oblanceolate, 1.5-5 cm. long and 1/3-1/2 as broad, rounded to obtuse, the base wedge-shaped, pale bluish-green, glaucous but not glandular on the lower surface, the margins serrulate on the upper half or less.

Leaves alternate, glaucous upper surface, green beneath, elliptic or narrowly elliptic, 5-15 mm long, margins entire and rolled slightly downward.

Flowers single in the axils, pinkish, 6-7 mm. long;

calyx obscurely 5-lobed;

corolla united, broadly urn-shaped, much less than twice as long as broad, the 5 lobes very short, reflexed;

anthers with dorsal awns and apical, pore-bearing tubes;

ovary inferior.

Inflorescences emerging from axils of bracts at base of shoots from current year’s growth; pedicles bracteolate, 2-3 cm, slender, nodding;

bracteoles 2, 1-2 mm wide, resembling scales, greenish white;

calyx lobes small;

corolla white to pink, very deeply 4-lobed, segments 6-10 mm, strongly reflexed;

filaments hairy, 1/3 length of anthers, anthers 1-2 mm.

Fruit a berry, glaucous-blue, globose, 5-8 mm. broad.

Berries globose, smooth, reddish to pink, 10-15 mm.