Flora of North America species comparison

petiole to 1.5 mm;

blade light green abaxially, shiny dark green adaxially, oblanceolate to obovate, 2–4 × 1–2 cm, subcoriaceous, base cuneate, margins entire (scattered stipitate-glandular-hairy and ciliate, 7–10 cilia per mm), apex obtuse to subacute, mucronate, surfaces persistently stipitate-glandular-hairy and sessile-glandular.

erect or arching, 3–7-flowered, bracteate, 2–5 cm, stipitate-glandular-hairy and hairy;

bracts persistent, leaflike, 2–5 mm, expanding to 5–10 mm, longer than pedicels, densely stipitate-glandular-hairy (hairs 0.3–0.5 mm).

2–4 mm, stipitate-glandular-hairy;

bracteoles 1–2, 2–5 mm.

sepals 5, 2 mm, densely stipitate-glandular-hairy (hairs 0.3–0.5 mm);

petals 5, corolla white to pink or reddish, campanulate, 6.5–7.5 mm (averaging 7 mm), lobes triangular, 1.2–1.7 mm;

filaments 0.3–0.5 mm, moderately hairy;

anthers included, 3.2–4 mm (averaging 3.7 mm), thecae divergent distally;

ovary stipitate-glandular-hairy (hairs 0.3–0.5 mm).

juicy, insipid, black, 6–8 mm diam., moderately glandular-hairy.

1.7–2 mm.