Flora of North America species comparison

spreading (bluntly thorn-tipped).

petiole 1–1.2 mm;

blade 1–3(–5) × 0.2–0.6 cm, base rounded, apex shallowly emarginate to rounded, abaxial surface densely lepidote, adaxial surface smooth.

alternate;

petiole relatively short;

nectaries absent;

blade narrowly oblong to linear-oblong, margins entire.

terminating spur shoots, 1–3 cm, lepidote.

terminal or axillary from distal blades, racemes or solitary flowers (subtended by leaf blades).

3–4 mm.

sepals (reflexed at anthesis), ovate, proximal pair 0.8–1.5 mm, distal pair 3–3.5 × 2.5 mm, abaxially lepidote, adaxially tomentose, hairs simple;

petals white, oblong, 3–6.5 × 2–3 mm;

staminodia 0–3;

gynophore 3–8 mm.

sepals equal or 2 unequal pairs, each often subtending a nectary;

stamens ca. 6;

filaments inserted on discoid or conical receptacle (androgynophore);

anthers ellipsoid;

gynophore slender, elongating in fruit.

8–11 × 5–6 mm, dehiscing into 2–4 segments, constricted between seeds, mesocarp red.

or berries, usually dehiscent, ovoid, ± fleshy.

3.8–5 mm.

1(2 or 3), globose to reniform, usually not arillate.

= 8.

= 16.