Flora of North America species comparison

with terminal end buds, glabrous.

with terminal end buds, hairy.

persistent;

petiole 5–8 mm, glabrous, eglandular;

blade narrowly elliptic to elliptic or oblanceolate, 5–10 × 1.5–4 cm, base cuneate to obtuse, margins entire or spinose-serrate, sometimes undulate, teeth sharp, eglandular, apex usually acute to short-acuminate, sometimes obtuse-apiculate, apicula acute, surfaces glabrous, abaxial glandular, glands 2, proximal, flat, circular to oval.

deciduous;

petiole 5–10 mm, hairy, glandular distally or on margins at bases of blades;

blade elliptic, oblong-ovate, or ovate, 3–8 × 1.5–4 cm, base obtuse, margins doubly serrate, teeth sharp, glandular, apex acuminate, abaxial surface hairy along midribs and veins, adaxial glabrous or with appressed hairs along midrib.

12–30-flowered, racemes;

central axes 13–30(–43) mm, leafless at bases.

2–5-flowered, umbellate fascicles.

1–4 mm, glabrous.

8–22 mm, hairy.

usually bisexual, proximal sometimes staminate, blooming before leaf emergence;

hypanthium cupulate, 2.5–3 mm, glabrous externally;

sepals spreading, semicircular, 0.5–1 mm, margins usually entire, sometimes glandular-toothed, surfaces glabrous;

petals white, suborbiculate to elliptic, 1–1.5 mm;

ovaries glabrous.

blooming before leaf emergence;

hypanthium tubular to tubular-urceolate, 4–7 mm, hairy externally;

sepals erect to spreading, oblong-ovate, 2–5 mm, margins toothed, sometimes glandular, abaxial surface sparsely hairy, adaxial glabrous;

petals pale pink, oblong to obovate, 8–12 mm;

ovaries glabrous.

black, ovoid, 9–12 mm, glabrous;

mesocarps leathery;

stones ovoid, not flattened, usually splitting open.

black, subglobose, 8 mm, glabrous;

mesocarps fleshy;

stones ellipsoid, not flattened.

= 32.

= 24 (Japan).