Flora of North America species comparison

spreading-ascending, slender;

new shoots moderately to copiously brown-hairy apically, aging glabrous.

red-brown to tan, distally red or pale-hairy, becoming gray-brown, distally glabrous or sparsely pale-hairy.

blade oblong to elliptic or narrowly obovate, 5-8 cm, leathery, base abruptly and broadly cuneate or rounded, margins strongly to moderately revolute, apex acute to broadly rounded, occasionally notched;

surfaces abaxially densely orange-hairy, becoming sparsely so on veins, adaxially sparsely orange-hairy, becoming glabrous and often glaucous.

blade oblong-obovate to oblanceolate, 15-30 cm, membranous, base narrowly cuneate, margins scarcely or not revolute, apex acute to acuminate;

surfaces abaxially densely hairy, later sparsely so on veins, adaxially sparsely appressed-pubescent on veins, becoming glabrous.

on previous year's growth;

peduncle slender, 2-3.5 cm, tomentose;

bracteoles 1-2, basal, usually ovate-triangular, rarely more than 2-3 mm, hairy.

from previous year's shoots before or during new leaf emergence;

peduncle nodding, (1-)1.5-2(-2.5) cm, densely hairy, hairs dark brown to red-brown;

bracteoles 1-2, basal, usually ovate-triangular, rarely over 2-3 mm, hairy.

1-3 per node, fragrant, large;

sepals triangular, 8-10 mm, abaxially orange-puberulent;

outer petals spreading, white or cream, narrowly oblong to obovate, 2.5-6 cm, abaxially puberulent on veins;

inner petals incurved, white, yellowish white, rarely pink or cherry red, mostly with deep maroon to purple corrugate zone, lance-hastate, 1/3-1/2 length of outer petals, fleshier, base saccate, margins revolute;

pistils 3-8.

maroon, fetid, 2-4(-5) cm diam.;

sepals triangular-deltate, 8-12 mm, abaxially densely pilose;

outer petals excurved, oblong-elliptic, 1.5-2.5 cm, abaxially puberulent on veins;

inner petals elliptic, 1/3-1/2 length of outer petals, base saccate, apex recurved, surfaces abaxially glabrate, veins impressed adaxially, corrugate nectary zone distinct;

pistils 3-7(-12).

yellow-green, 4-7 cm.

yellow-green, 5-15 cm.

dark to pale brown, lustrous, 1-2 cm.

brown to chestnut brown, 1.5-2.5 cm.

=18.