Flora of North America species comparison

petiole 0.5–1.5 mm;

blade light green abaxially, shiny dark green adaxially, oblanceolate to obovate, 2.5–4 × 0.3–1 cm, subcoriaceous, base cuneate, margins entire, (scattered stipitate-glandular-hairy and ciliate, 2–5 cilia per mm), apex obtuse to subacute, mucronate, surfaces scattered stipitate-glandular-hairy and sessile-glandular, adaxial surface sometimes glabrescent.

erect or arching, 5–8-flowered, bracteate, 3–6 cm, stipitate-glandular-hairy;

bracts persistent, leaflike, expanding to 5–12 mm, equaling or longer than pedicels, hairy and stipitate-glandular-hairy.

2–3 mm, hairy and stipitate-glandular-hairy;

bracteoles 1–2, 2–5 mm.

sepals 5, 2 mm, sparsely to moderately hairy (hairs 0.2–0.3 mm) and stipitate-glandular-hairy;

petals 5, corolla white to pink, sometimes reddish, campanulate, 3–5 mm, lobes triangular, 1–1.5 mm;

filaments 0.3–0.5 mm, sparsely hairy;

anthers included, 3–3.5 mm, thecae divergent distally;

ovary stipitate-glandular-hairy, hairs 0.2–0.3 mm.

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

1.5–1.8 mm.