UW Burke Herbarium species comparison

Leaves ovate to elliptic-lanceolate, 1-3 cm. long, light green, strongly serrulate, strongly veiny on the lower surface.

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 on pedicels 2-3 mm. long;

calyx shallowly 5-lobed;

corolla entire, pinkish, broadly urn-shaped;

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, dark red to bluish, 5-8 mm. long.

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