Flora of North America species comparison

deciduous;

petiole 4–7 mm, tomentose-villous;

blade elliptic to ovate, 33–45 × 20–32 mm, chartaceous, base rounded, margins flat, veins 5–7, superficial, apex acute or obtuse, abaxial surfaces densely silvery-pilose-villous, adaxial green to dark green, dull to slightly shiny, not glaucous, flat between lateral veins, rugose, sparsely pilose;

fall leaves lacking notable color.

persistent;

petiole 1–2 mm, tomentose;

blade narrowly elliptic, sometimes lance-elliptic, rarely lanceolate, 5–11 × 2–6 mm, coriaceous, base narrowly cuneate, margins slightly revolute, veins 2–4, slightly sunken, apex acute or obtuse with long mucro, abaxial surfaces grayish white-tomentose, adaxial dark green, shiny, not glaucous, minutely rugose and verruculose, flat between lateral veins, initially pilose-strigose, soon glabrate.

on fertile shoots 25–30 mm with 3 or 4 leaves, 5–13-flowered, pendent, lax.

on fertile shoots 10–20 mm with 4 leaves, 1(–3)-flowered.

3–8 mm, sometimes sparsely villous.

1–3 mm, tomentose.

erect, 6–7 mm, open;

hypanthium cupulate, dark reddish brown, glabrous;

sepals: margins erose, apex acute or obtuse, surfaces glabrous, often apically villous;

petals erect, greenish white with pink, red, base slightly darkened, margins white, glabrous;

stamens 20(–22), filaments white, anthers white;

styles 2–4.

erect, 7–8 mm diam.;

buds white;

hypanthium funnelform, densely villous, becoming glabrate;

sepals: margins villous, apex cuspidate or acuminate, surfaces tomentose;

petals spreading, white, glabrous or hairy;

stamens 20, filaments white, anthers purple;

styles 2.

purple-black, obovoid or globose, 7–9 × 7–9 mm, dull, glaucous with blue tinge, glabrous;

sepals suberect, glabrous or apically villous;

navel open;

style remnants 2/3 from base.

bright red, sometimes tinged crimson or cherry, globose, subglobose, or depressed-globose, 6–7 × 5–8 mm, shiny, not glaucous, sparsely villous;

sepals suberect or erect as coronet, villous to sparsely so;

navel open with pyrenes exserted;

style remnants at apex.

2–4.

2.

= 48–52, 68 (Russia).

= 68 (Germany).