Flora of North America species comparison

with axillary end buds, usually glabrous, rarely puberulent.

with terminal end buds, glabrous.

deciduous; ± sessile;

blade narrowly elliptic, obovate, oblanceolate, or spatulate, 1–3 × 0.2–0.6 cm, base long-attenuate, margins usually serrulate, sometimes obscurely, teeth blunt, inconspicuously glandular, apex usually acute, sometimes obtuse, surfaces usually glabrous, sometimes puberulent.

persistent;

petiole 14–20 mm, glabrous, eglandular;

blade elliptic, oblong-ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, 6–13 × 2.5–7 cm, base obtuse to rounded, margins crenate-dentate, teeth blunt, glandular, apex acuminate, surfaces glabrous, abaxial eglandular, if glands present, restricted to margins.

solitary flowers or 2-flowered fascicles.

18–60[–100]-flowered, racemes;

central axes 100–280 mm, leafless at bases.

(1–)4–12 mm, glabrous.

7–15(–22) mm, glabrous.

blooming at leaf emergence;

hypanthium campanulate, 3–4 mm, usually glabrous, rarely puberulent externally;

sepals spreading, triangular, 1.5–2.5 mm, margins sparsely glandular-toothed, ciliate, surfaces glabrate;

petals usually dark pink, sometimes nearly white, elliptic, obovate, or suborbiculate, (5–)8–11 mm;

ovaries hairy.

blooming after leaf emergence;

hypanthium cupulate, 2.5–3.5 mm, glabrous externally;

sepals spreading to reflexed, semicircular, 1–1.5 mm, margins entire, ± ciliate, abaxial surface glabrous, adaxial hairy;

petals white, suborbiculate to obovate, 4–7 mm;

ovaries glabrous.

greenish yellow to red-orange, globose to asymmetrically obovoid, compressed, 10–18 mm, base cuneate-stipitate, apex mucronate, densely puberulent;

hypanthium persistent;

mesocarps leathery to dry (often splitting);

stones ellipsoid to subglobose, ± flattened.

dark purple, ovoid to conic-ovoid, 8–12 mm, glabrous;

mesocarps fleshy to leathery;

stones ovoid, not flattened.

= 32, 64.