Flora of North America species comparison

with terminal end buds, glabrous.

with axillary end buds, glabrous.

deciduous;

petiole 10–24 mm, glabrous, usually eglandular, sometimes with discoid marginal glands at bases of blades;

blade broadly elliptic to ovate or obovate, 4.4–6(–8) × 2.8–4(–6) cm, base obtuse to rounded, margins doubly crenate-serrate, teeth blunt, glandular, apex acute to abruptly acuminate, abaxial surface glabrous or glabrate, adaxial glabrous.

deciduous;

petiole 7–21 mm, glabrous or sparsely hairy on adaxial surface, glandular distally, glands 1–4;

blade lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate, or elliptic to narrowly elliptic, usually folded along midribs, 4–11 × 1.5–5 cm, base obtuse to rounded, margins singly to doubly crenate-serrulate, teeth blunt, glandular, glands inconspicuous, blackish, apex usually acuminate, sometimes acute, abaxial surface glabrous or ± hairy along midribs and veins, adaxial usually glabrous, rarely midribs hairy.

1–4-flowered, umbellate fascicles.

2–4-flowered, umbellate fascicles.

8–37 mm, glabrous.

3–15 mm, glabrous.

blooming at leaf emergence;

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

sepals reflexed, oblong, 4–7 mm, margins regularly glandular-toothed, surfaces glabrous;

petals white, suborbiculate, 10–14 mm;

ovaries glabrous.

blooming before or at leaf emergence;

hypanthium campanulate, 2–3 mm, usually glabrous, rarely glabrate, externally;

sepals broadly spreading to reflexed, oblong-ovate, 1.5–2.5 mm, margins glandular-toothed, abaxial surface glabrous or sparsely hairy, adaxial densely hairy at bases;

petals white, obovate, 4–7 mm;

ovaries glabrous.

bright red, globose, 13–20 mm, glabrous;

mesocarps fleshy;

stones subglobose, not flattened.

usually red, sometimes yellowish orange, with white dots, not or only slightly glaucous, globose, 12–25 mm, glabrous;

mesocarps fleshy;

stones ovoid to subglobose, ± flattened.

= 32.