Flora of North America species comparison

terete or compressed at nodes;

bark gray or brown.

olive or tan abaxially, drying grayish green adaxially;

petiole splayed or flattened, 3–8 mm;

blade ovate or elliptic, 4–8 × 2–4 cm, leathery, base cuneate or oblique, margins decurrent into splayed distal edge of petiole, apex acute to rounded, surfaces with scattered glands abaxially, glands obscure adaxially.

4–8-flowered, racemes, solitary or 2 superposed;

axis 3–6 mm, 4-angled;

bud globose, 1.5 mm;

bracteoles persistent, ovate, ca. 0.5 × 0.6 mm, base usually connate and involucrate, less commonly distinct, margins ciliate, apex rounded or truncate.

1–3 mm (relatively equal).

hypanthium campanulate, 0.5–1 mm;

calyx lobes elliptic, in unequal pairs, larger pair ca. 1 × 1 mm, margins ciliate, apex rounded;

petals elliptic, 2.5–3 × 2–2.5 mm, apex rounded;

disc 0.7–1 mm diam.;

stamens 30–50, 2.2–3.5 mm;

style 3–4.5 mm.

purplish black, globose or oblate, 5.5–9 × 5.5–7 mm;

calyx persistent, not prominent.