Flora of North America species comparison

5–20 cm diam.;

bark purplish brown or gray-brown, peeling irregularly;

young branches purplish brown and densely puberulous, becoming grayish purple or grayish brown and glabrous at maturity; flowering shoots producing spurs, (5–)10–20(–35) mm.

purplish brown, ovoid, 5–7 mm, scale margins sparsely pubescent.

convolute in bud;

isomorphic;

stipules deciduous, lanceolate, 4–5 mm, apex acuminate;

petiole 10–50 mm, tomentose;

blade elliptic or ovate, (3.5–)5–9.5(–11) × (2–)4–5(–8) cm, base broadly cuneate, margins unlobed, acutely serrate or serrulate, sometimes doubly serrate, apex acuminate or acute, sometimes cuspidate, abaxial surface glabrous, adaxial puberulent or subglabrous.

alternate, sometimes opposite, simple, sometimes pinnately compound;

stipules present or absent.

umbel-like;

peduncles 0–2 mm;

bracteoles deciduous, rare, ± middle of pedicel, filiform, 3–4 mm.

20–35 mm, puberulous.

(30–)40–50 mm diam.;

hypanthium puberulent;

sepals triangular-lanceolate or lanceolate, 7–9 mm, longer than tube, apex acuminate, surfaces puberulent;

petals white, obovate or elliptic, 25–30 mm, claws 1–2 mm, margins entire, apex rounded;

stamens ca. 20, 8–10 mm, anthers yellow before dehiscence;

styles 4 or 5, basally connate 1/3 length, 9–11 mm, longer than stamens, proximally tomentose.

torus absent or minute;

carpels 1–5(–8), distinct or +/- connate (Maleae), free or +/- adnate to hypanthium (many Maleae), styles distinct or +/- connate (some Maleae);

ovules (1 or)2(–5+), collateral, clustered, or biseriate.

follicles aggregated or not, capsules, drupes aggregated or not, aggregated drupelets, pomes, or aggregated nutlets, rarely achenes or aggregated achenes;

styles persistent or deciduous, not elongate (elongate in Gillenieae).

yellow to dark red, ovoid or oblong, 20–25(–34) mm diam., cores enclosed at apex;

sepals persistent, reflexed (erect), raised, swollen at base;

sclereids sparse surrounding core.

dark brown.

= 8, 9, 15, 17.

= 34, 51.