Flora of North America species comparison

usually 1;

bark (trunk) grayish, with fine tan to dark gray striations, ± smooth; short shoots absent; unarmed;

young stems puberulent.

persistent, cauline, simple;

stipules variably persistent, free, minute, margins unknown, apex gland-tipped;

petiole present;

blade ± elliptic to narrowly elliptic or narrowly oblong, 5–15(–20) cm, leathery, margins revolute, sharply, remotely serrate, venation pinnate (craspedodromous-brochidodromous), surfaces tomentose when young, glabrescent.

terminal, 20–150-flowered, panicles, ± dome-shaped, white-tomentose;

bracts present on proximal nodes, leaflike, plus numerous, scalelike appendages on axes;

bracteoles present caducous, delicate.

present.

perianth and androecium epigynous, 10 mm diam.;

hypanthium urceolate, 2–4 mm, glabrous or weakly floccose;

sepals 5, suberect, triangular;

petals 5, white, irregularly round, base weakly clawed;

stamens 10, shorter than petals;

carpels 2 or 3, distinct, basally adnate to hypanthium, styles 2 or 3, lateral, distinct;

ovules 2.

pomes, usually bright red, sometimes yellow, ellipsoid, 5–10 mm, glabrous or glabrate;

flesh mealy;

hypanthium persistent;

sepals persistent, accrescent over hypanthial opening.

2 or 3 per fruit, carpel walls thin, soft;

styles not persistent;

seeds 1 per pyrene, large.