Flora of North America species comparison

with axillary end buds, glabrous.

with axillary end buds, puberulent.

deciduous;

petiole 2–14 mm, usually sparsely hairy on adaxial surface, rarely glabrous or hairy on both surfaces, usually eglandular, sometimes glandular distally, glands 1–2;

blade lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, usually folded along midribs, often ± falcate, 1.5–6 × 0.8–2 cm, base cuneate to obtuse, margins crenulate-serrulate, teeth blunt, glandular, glands reddish orange, conic, apex acute, abaxial surface glabrate with hairs along midribs and major veins, adaxial glabrous.

deciduous;

petiole 1–3 mm, glabrous or puberulent, eglandular;

blade rhombic, obovate, or fan-shaped, 0.5–1.6(–2) × 0.2–0.8(–1.4) cm, base broadly obtuse or rounded to nearly truncate, margins serrate or dentate in distal 1/2, teeth blunt to sharp, some callus-tipped, rarely glandular, apex rounded to obtuse, surfaces puberulent.

2–4-flowered, umbellate fascicles.

solitary flowers.

3–10 mm, glabrous.

0 mm.

blooming before, sometimes at, leaf emergence;

hypanthium campanulate, 1.5–3 mm, usually glabrous, rarely hairy, externally;

sepals erect to spreading, ovate, 1–2 mm, margins entire, sparsely ciliate, abaxial surface glabrous, adaxial hairy;

petals white, suborbiculate to obovate, 3–6 mm;

ovaries glabrous.

unisexual, plants dioecious, blooming at leaf emergence;

hypanthium campanulate, 2.5–3 mm, glabrous externally;

sepals spreading to reflexed, triangular, 0.7–1 mm, margins entire, sparsely ciliate, surfaces glabrate;

petals white, obovate, 2 mm;

ovaries hairy.

red to yellow, lightly glaucous, globose to ellipsoid, 15–20 mm, glabrous;

mesocarps fleshy;

stones ovoid, ± flattened.

reddish brown, ovoid, 8–11 mm, puberulent;

hypanthium tardily deciduous;

mesocarps leathery to dry (splitting);

stones ovoid, slightly flattened.

= 16.