Flora of North America species comparison

ca. 1, erect;

bark gray-brown; short shoots absent; unarmed; hairy.

persistent, cauline, simple;

stipules deciduous or ± persistent, free, linear, small, margins entire;

petiole present;

blade ± elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, 2–40 cm, leathery, margins flat, dentate, venation pinnate (craspedodromous), abaxial surface tomentose, adaxial glabrous [hairy].

alternate, sometimes opposite, simple, sometimes pinnately compound;

stipules present or absent.

terminal, 20–40-flowered, panicles, usually ± tomentose;

bracts present at proximal nodes, leafy;

bracteoles present.

present, short, or nearly absent.

perianth and androecium epigynous, 15–20 mm diam.;

hypanthium urceolate, 3–4 mm, usually tomentose;

sepals 5, suberect, triangular;

petals 5, white, obovate to ± oblong;

stamens [10–15]20, shorter than petals;

carpels (2–)5, connate, basally adnate to hypanthium, indumentum not recorded, styles (2–)5, terminal, proximally connate;

ovules 2.

torus absent or minute;

carpels 1–5(–8), distinct or +/- connate (Maleae), free or +/- adnate to hypanthium (many Maleae), styles distinct or +/- connate (some Maleae);

ovules (1 or)2(–5+), collateral, clustered, or biseriate.

pomes, soft apricot yellow [yellow to reddish or blackish], ellipsoid to subglobose, [10–]20–30 mm diam., softly short-hairy;

hypanthium persistent;

sepals usually persistent, covering hypanthial opening or reflexed;

carpel walls thin;

styles not persistent.

follicles aggregated or not, capsules, drupes aggregated or not, aggregated drupelets, pomes, or aggregated nutlets, rarely achenes or aggregated achenes;

styles persistent or deciduous, not elongate (elongate in Gillenieae).

1–5 per fruit.

= 17.

= 8, 9, 15, 17.