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.

horizontally oriented;

petiole 0.2–2 cm, gray-tomentose;

blade 3–12.8 × 1–4.2 cm (to 14.9 × 8.1 cm on sucker shoots), base tapering to cuneate, apex obtuse to acute;

venation pinnate.

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

3.5–14 cm, usually gray-tomentose, rarely with stalked, swollen-headed, glandular hairs;

floral bracts solitary at bases of pedicels, lanceolate-linear or lanceolate-ovate to oblong-ovate, plane to navicular, 2–10 mm.

often curved, 4–20 mm;

bracteoles usually basal, rarely higher, often reduced, acicular to narrowly triangular, to 3 mm.

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.

sepals appressed to corollas during flowering, becoming spreading to reflexed in fruit, equal or nearly so, much shorter than corolla tube, 2–3.5 × 0.8–1.7 mm, apex acute to acuminate, gray-tomentose, rarely with glandular hairs;

petals spreading or recurved, corolla 5–8 × 3.5–5.5 mm, glabrous or puberulent, lobes obtuse, 0.9–1.3 × 1.4–1.8 mm;

nectary weakly 10-lobed or -ribbed;

stamens 2.6–3.6 mm;

filaments 2.3–3.4 mm, villous;

anthers ovoid, 1–1.6 mm, awns 0.6–1.1 mm;

ovary villous;

style often persistent, included or slightly exserted, 3–5.3 mm, glabrous or hairy;

stigma minute.

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.

5–7 mm diam.

5, connate.

pendulous by persistent, gray, short, caplike funiculus, 2.2–2.3 × 1–1.4 mm;

testa thick-walled, reticulate.

twigs gray-tomentose.

= 13.

= 26.