Flora of North America species comparison

erect or prostrate.

petiole to 2 mm;

blade whitish gray, dull, oblong-ovate to orbiculate-ovate, 1.5–4.5 × 1.5–3 cm, base distinctly lobed, auriculate-clasping, margins entire, plane, surfaces smooth, gray-canescent, glabrescent.

persistent (deciduous in Arctous), usually alternate, sometimes opposite or whorled (Ornithostaphylos), rarely opposite (Xylococcus);

petiole usually present, sometimes absent (Arctostaphylos);

blade plane, abaxial groove absent.

panicles, 3–5-branched;

immature inflorescence pendent, (branches crowded, ± obscured by bracts), axis 1–1.5 cm, 1+ mm diam., densely white-hairy with long, white hairs;

bracts somewhat appressed, leaflike, ovate to lanceolate-ovate, 5–15 mm, apex acute, surfaces canescent.

terminal, panicles or racemes;

perulae absent;

bracts much shorter than sepals;

bracteoles 2 or absent (Arctostaphylos, Arctous).

4–10 mm, tomentose.

corolla white to pink, conic;

ovary densely white-hairy.

pendulous;

sepals (4-)5;

petals (4-)5, connate, corolla deciduous, usually urceolate, sometimes cylindric, conic, or globose, lobes much shorter than tube;

intrastaminal nectary disc present;

stamens (8-)10;

anthers dehiscent by slits or pores;

ovary 2-10-locular;

placentation axile;

style straight.

depressed-globose, 5–10 mm diam., short white-hairy, glabrescent.

drupaceous (baccate in Arbutus), (pulp mealy or juicy), indehiscent;

pyrenes 1-5, often connate into stonelike endocarp.

1-10, usually distinct, sometimes connate, globose (sometimes 3-sided), not winged.

distinct.

= 26.