Flora of North America species comparison

erect;

twigs glabrous.

persistent;

blade ovate, coriaceous, margins entire or serrate, plane, surfaces often multicellular, long-stalked stipitate-glandular-hairy, otherwise unicellular-hairy on midvein [covering abaxial surface];

venation reticulodromous (reticulum rather dense and with all orders ± equally prominent).

blades 2.6–9(–11.2) × 0.9–4(–5) cm, base narrowly cuneate to rounded, apex acuminate, surfaces sometimes stipitate-glandular-hairy, hairy on midvein adaxially.

axillary [terminal] racemes [panicles], 10–20-flowered, (produced just before flowering).

bracteoles 2, near base to ± midpoint.

sepals 5, slightly connate, deltate;

petals 5, connate for most of their lengths, white [red], corolla cylindric [urceolate], lobes short;

stamens 10, included;

filaments geniculate, flattened, hairy, without spurs;

anthers without awns, dehiscent by elliptic pores;

pistil 5-carpellate;

ovary 5-locular;

stigma (slightly exserted), truncate to capitate, obscurely lobed, (minutely papillose).

calyx lobes 0.9–2 × 0.6–1.5 mm;

corolla 6–9.5 × 3–5 mm, glabrous;

filaments 4–5.5 mm;

style impressed into ovary apex.

capsular, subglobose to short-ovoid, (with unthickened sutures), dry.

3–4 × 4.5–6.5 mm, placentae subapical.

120–250, narrowly oblong to pyramidal or angular-obovoid;

testa cells elongate.

brown, 1.4–2 mm.

= 12.

= 24.