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, ovate to lanceolate, acute, 5-15 mm. long, deep green, shining on the upper surface, grayish beneath, strongly revolute.

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.

Flowers 1-several, terminal or lateral on the stem;

pedicels very slender, 2-4 cm. long, usually glabrous, with 2 tiny bractlets usually below mid-length;

petals 4, distinct, deep pinkish, 5-8 mm. long, recurved;

anthers with pore-bearing terminal tubes but without awns;

ovary inferior.

Fruit a berry, dark red to bluish, 5-8 mm. long.

Fruit a berry, deep red, 5-10 mm. broad.