Flora of North America species comparison

usually erect to spreading, rarely trailing or mat-forming, branching, glabrous or densely hairy.

persistent [rarely facultatively drought-deciduous], bifacial;

blade narrowly ovate to ovate or elliptic to obovate or broadly ovate, coriaceous, margins usually serrate to serrulate, rarely subentire, plane or revolute, abaxial surface usually densely gray-tomentose, rarely subglabrous, adaxial (green, shining), usually glabrous, sometimes hairy along midvein.

racemes [panicles], solitary or clustered, 5–30-flowered.

bisexual;

sepals (drying) persistent, (4–)5, distinct or slightly connate, narrowly triangular to subulate or nearly acicular;

petals (4–)5, (imbricate), connate for 3/4+ their lengths, white [greenish white, pale yellow, pink, or red], corolla cylindric to nearly globose;

stamens 10, included;

filaments dilated near base;

anthers with 2 dorsal awns, dehiscent by 2 slits 1/4–1/2 as long as anthers;

ovary 5-locular, (papillate);

stigma slightly capitate.

red [nearly black to dark purple], globose, juicy, warty, granular, or papillate (with multicellular papillae radiating ± perpendicularly outward);

pyrenes 5, connate into solid, thick-walled, stonelike, globose endocarp.

5, connate.

= 13.