Flora of North America species comparison

with axillary end buds, glabrous.

with terminal end buds, densely puberulent.

deciduous;

petiole (12–)20–45 mm, glabrous, glandular distally or on margins at bases of blades, glands 1–5;

blade broadly ovate to suborbiculate, (3–)5–9 × (2–)4–8 cm, base usually obtuse to rounded, sometimes truncate or subcordate, margins singly to doubly crenate-serrate, teeth blunt, glandular, apex abruptly short-acuminate, abaxial surface with tufts of hairs in vein axils, 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.

solitary flowers.

4–10-flowered, corymbs;

central axes 8–40 mm.

1–3 mm, hairy.

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

blooming before leaf emergence;

hypanthium tubular-campanulate, 4–6 mm, glabrous or sparsely hairy externally;

sepals reflexed, oblong-ovate, 4–6 mm, margins remotely glandular-toothed, surfaces sparsely hairy;

petals white (pink in bud), broadly elliptic to suborbiculate, 8–12 mm;

ovaries hairy.

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.

yellow to orange, often tinged with red, ellipsoid to globose, laterally compressed, 25–60 mm, velutinous;

mesocarps fleshy;

stones ellipsoid to subglobose, strongly flattened, not pitted.

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

mesocarps leathery;

stones ellipsoid to subglobose, ± flattened.

= 16.

= 16.