Flora of North America species comparison

with axillary end buds, glabrous.

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.

alternate, simple;

stipules deciduous, free;

venation pinnate.

2–4-flowered, umbellate fascicles.

3–10 mm, 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.

perianth and androecium perigynous;

epicalyx bractlets absent;

hypanthium cup-shaped, obconic, campanulate, or tubular;

torus absent;

carpel 1, distinct, free, style terminal, distinct;

ovules 2 (1 abortive), apical, collateral (obturator present).

drupes;

styles deciduous, not elongate.

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

mesocarps fleshy;

stones ovoid, ± flattened.

= 16.