Flora of North America species comparison

petiole 1–8 mm;

blade bright green, shiny, narrow-elliptic (rhombic) or lanceolate-elliptic to widely elliptic, 0.8–3 × 0.4–1.5 cm, base rounded to cuneate, margins entire, plane, surfaces smooth, ± puberulent, glabrescent.

bifacial in stomatal distribution;

petiole 2–5 mm;

blade dark to bright green, dull abaxially, ± shiny adaxially, oblong-ovate to oblong-lanceolate, 2–5 × 1.5–2.5 cm, base truncate to ± lobed, margins entire, sometimes toothed, cupped or ± rolled, (distal portion glabrous, proximal tomentose), surfaces short-hairy or glabrous abaxially, papillate, scabrous, sometimes finely glandular-hairy or ± glabrous adaxially.

racemes, simple or 1-branched;

immature inflorescence pendent (crook-necked), axis 0.3–1 cm, 1+ mm diam., sparsely short-hairy;

bracts not appressed, (weakly spreading), (congested), (dark green), scalelike, deltate, (globose, cuplike), 2–5 mm, apex acute, surfaces glabrous.

panicles, 2–8-branched;

immature inflorescence pendent, axis 1–2.5 cm, 1+ mm diam., usually short-hairy, sometimes with long hairs and glandular hairs;

bracts not appressed, leaflike, lanceolate, 8–15 mm, apex acute, surfaces glabrous, hairy, or finely glandular-hairy.

2–6 mm, glabrous.

2–5 mm, sparsely hairy, sometimes glandular, or hairy.

corolla white, urceolate;

ovary glabrous.

corolla white, conic to urceolate;

ovary white-hairy and sometimes sparsely glandular.

globose, 3–6 mm diam., glabrous.

depressed-globose, 6–10 mm diam., sparsely hairy or glabrous.

distinct.

distinct.

= 26.