Flora of North America species comparison

persistent, often 30–40 mm apart;

petiole 2–4 mm, tomentose-pilose;

blade ovate or elliptic, 22–58 × 12–29 mm, coriaceous, base cuneate or obtuse, margins flat, veins 4 or 5, sunken, apex acute or acuminate, mucronate, abaxial surfaces silvery-tomentose, adaxial grayish green, slightly shiny, not glaucous, flat, rarely slightly bulging between lateral veins, drying slightly rugose, pilose.

deciduous;

petiole 3–5 mm, densely pilose;

blade elliptic to narrowly ovate, (24–)30–50(–68) x 12–25(–32) mm, chartaceous, base cuneate or obtuse, margins flat, not revolute, veins 3–5, slightly sunken, apex acute or obtuse, abaxial surfaces pale, reticulate, pilose, adaxial yellowish green, dull, not glaucous, flat between lateral veins, pilose;

fall leaves intensely yellow.

on fertile shoots 30–60 mm with 4 leaves, 5–15(–25)-flowered, compact.

on fertile shoots 20–45 mm with 4 leaves, 8–18-flowered, lax.

1–4 mm, densely long-silky hairy.

slender, 5–10 mm, pilose.

(5–)7–8(–10) mm, opening small;

hypanthium cupulate, densely long-silky hairy;

sepals: margins villous, borders purple, glabrous, apex cuspidate or acuminate, surfaces silky hairy;

petals erect-incurved, pink or red, base dark pink to dark red, margins off-white;

stamens 16–21, filaments pink, distally white, anthers pink or purplish pink;

styles 2 or 3(or 4).

spreading, 4–5.5 mm, open;

hypanthium cupulate, villose-pilose;

sepals: margins villous, apex obtuse, surfaces villous;

petals erect, pink, base pink to dark pink or red-tinged;

stamens 19–23, filaments white or pale pink, anthers white;

styles 2(or 3).

orange-red, obovoid base rounded or obconic base cuneate, straight-sided, 8–12 × 6–9 mm, apex flat, shiny, not glaucous, sparsely pilose;

sepals flat, often asymmetric with 2 sepals longer than others, tomentose;

navel slightly open;

style remnants 3/4 from base.

pendent, bright orange-red, broadly ellipsoid, broadly obovoid, or globose, rarely depressed-globose, (4–)6–9.3(–11) x 6–9.7 mm, slightly shiny, not glaucous, sparsely villous;

sepals flat, villous; forming star over slightly open navel;

style remnants 3/4 from base.

2 or 3(or 4).

2(or 3).

= 68 (Germany).