Flora of North America species comparison

1–50, ascending, forming clumps, much branched;

bark gray, smooth; long and short shoots present; unarmed; slightly hairy.

deciduous, cauline, simple;

stipules soon deciduous, adnate to petiole and base of blade, triangular, margins entire or serrulate;

petiole short or absent;

blade elliptic to oblanceolate or linear, 1–6 cm, coriaceous, margins flat, entire or serrulate, venation pinnate, camptodromous, apex with deciduous gland, surfaces sparsely pubescent.

terminal usually on short shoots, 1–3-flowered, cymose, sparsely to moderately hairy;

bracts absent;

bracteoles absent.

present.

developing after leaves, perianth and androecium epigynous, 10–20 mm diam.;

hypanthium funnel-shaped, 2–4 mm diam., glabrous;

sepals 5, ascending to spreading, triangular;

petals 5, white or pinkish, obovate to orbiculate, base clawed;

stamens 15–20, shorter than petals;

carpels 2 or 3, connate, adnate to hypanthium, appearing 4–6-loculed by false partitions, styles 2 or 3, terminal, connate;

ovules 2.

berrylike pomes, yellow-orange, globose to ellipsoid, 8–18 mm, glabrous;

bitter tasting;

hypanthium persistent;

sepals persistent, erect to recurved;

carpels cartilaginous;

styles persistent.

1–6.

= 17.