Flora of North America species comparison

erect;

branches spreading, without silvery scales (sometimes hairy).

erect, 1–4 m, branches spreading.

deciduous;

blade (not glaucous), oblong to oblanceolate or obovate, membranous, margins spinulose-serrulate, plane, surfaces glabrous, often unicellular-hairy on major veins abaxially;

venation reticulodromous.

petiole 1–3 mm;

blade 3–8 cm, surfaces pilose on major veins abaxially.

axillary, fascicled or solitary racemes, 8–25-flowered, (produced on previous year’s wood); (bracteoles 2, distal).

spreading or ascending, secund, curved or recurved, 5–12 cm;

bracts ± deciduous, ovate-deltate, 1–1.7 mm.

sepals 5, connate basally, lanceolate or ovate;

petals 5, connate basally nearly their entire lengths, white to pale pink, corolla cylindric, lobes much shorter than tube;

stamens 8(–10), included;

filaments ± straight, flattened, glabrous, without spurs;

anthers with 2 or 4 awns proximal to anther-filament junction, dehiscent by terminal pores;

pistil 5-carpellate;

ovary pseudo 10-locular;

stigma 5-lobed, capitate.

calyx campanulate, sepals ovate, 2.5–3 mm, apex acute;

corolla white to pale pink, 7–9 mm, lobes recurved, glabrous;

stamens 3–4 mm;

anthers 2-awned, ca. 1.5 mm, thecae divergent distally;

ovary glabrous.

capsular, depressed-globose, dry.

3–5 mm wide.

5–10, oblanceoloid or wedge- or crescent-shaped, flattened or not;

testa smooth, shiny, reticulate.

winged, oblanceoloid, flat, 1–1.3 mm.

= 11.