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.

alternate, sometimes opposite, simple, sometimes pinnately compound;

stipules present or absent.

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.

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.

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

bitter tasting;

hypanthium persistent;

sepals persistent, erect to recurved;

carpels cartilaginous;

styles persistent.

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).

1–6.

= 17.

= 8, 9, 15, 17.