Flora of North America species comparison

petiole 5–8 mm, channeled adaxially, glabrous or papillose;

blade not maculate or, sometimes, maculate, dull and light green abaxially, glossy and green adaxially, lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate to ovate or lanceolate-oblong, (6–)10–55 × 4.5–25 mm, base obtuse or acute or decurrent, margins entire or serrulate to serrate, apex acute.

1–3-flowered;

peduncle 1 per stem, 2–5 cm, papillose to hispidulous;

inflorescence bracts broadly ovate to broadly obovate, free portions shorter than to nearly as long as pedicels from which they arise, 2–7 × 2–7.5 mm, membranous, margins erose-denticulate.

6–12 mm.

calyx lobes spreading or reflexed in fruit, green with margins hyaline or whitish green, ovate to suborbiculate, (3–)5–6.5 × 2.2–4.5 mm, margins erose-denticulate, apex rounded to obtuse;

petals white, often suffused with pink, orbiculate, 5–7 × 4.5–8 mm, margins entire or erose-denticulate;

stamens 4.2–7 mm;

filament base 0.8–1.3 mm wide, dilated basal portion ciliate to villous;

anthers 2.2–3.1 mm, thecae yellowish or tan to pinkish, tubules tan or pinkish, 0.7–1.1 mm, abruptly narrowed from thecae, lateral walls not touching, pores 0.1–0.2 × 0.1–0.2 mm;

ovary papillose in lines;

style 0.3–0.6 mm;

stigma 1.6–2.2(–2.8) mm wide.

depressed-globose, 4–5 × 5–6 mm.

= 26.