Flora of North America species comparison

with axillary end buds, glabrous.

with terminal end buds, densely 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 4–20 mm, glabrous or ± puberulent on adaxial surface, sometimes glandular distally, glands 1–2, discoid;

blade broadly ovate, oblong, or suborbiculate, 1.9–4.5 × 1.2–3.4 cm, base usually rounded to truncate, sometimes subcordate, margins crenate, teeth blunt, glandular, apex abruptly acuminate, apicula obtuse, surfaces usually glabrous, sometimes midribs and veins hairy abaxially.

2–4-flowered, umbellate fascicles.

4–10-flowered, corymbs;

central axes 8–40 mm.

3–10 mm, glabrous.

6–18 mm (subtended by leafy bracts), glabrous.

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.

blooming at leaf emergence;

hypanthium conic-campanulate, 2–3 mm, glabrous externally;

sepals reflexed, oblong, 1.3–2 mm, margins entire, surfaces glabrous;

petals white, elliptic to obovate, 6–7 mm;

ovaries glabrous.

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

mesocarps fleshy;

stones ovoid, ± flattened.

dark red to black, ovoid, 6–10 mm, glabrous;

mesocarps leathery;

stones ellipsoid to subglobose, ± flattened.

= 16.

= 16.