Flora of North America species comparison

with axillary end buds, glabrous or canescent.

with axillary end buds, canescent.

deciduous;

sessile;

blade oblanceolate to linear, 0.5–2 × 0.1–0.2(–0.4) cm, base long-attenuate, margins nearly entire or obscurely and remotely serrulate in distal 1/3, teeth blunt to sharp, sometimes glandular, apex rounded to acute, surfaces puberulent or glabrous or low-papillate (var. punctata).

deciduous;

petiole 0.5–3(–5) mm, hairy, eglandular;

blade ovate, obovate, or spatulate, 0.5–2(–3) × 0.2–1(–2) cm, base cuneate to obtuse, margins irregularly serrate, teeth usually sharp, eglandular, sometimes blunt, obscurely glandular, apex obtuse to rounded, often mucronate, surfaces hairy.

solitary flowers or 2-flowered fascicles.

solitary flowers or 2-flowered fascicles.

0–4 mm, glabrous.

0–3 mm, puberulent.

unisexual, plants dioecious, blooming at leaf emergence;

hypanthium campanulate, 1.5–3 mm, glabrous externally;

sepals erect-spreading, triangular, 0.7–1 mm, margins entire, surfaces glabrous;

petals white to yellowish, elliptic, obovate, or suborbiculate, 1.4–2.5(–4) mm;

ovaries hairy.

unisexual, plants dioecious, blooming at leaf emergence;

hypanthium campanulate, 2–4 mm, hairy externally;

sepals erect, triangular, 1–2 mm, margins entire, sparsely ciliate, abaxial surface densely hairy, adaxial glabrous or slightly hairy;

petals white, elliptic, rhombic, ovate, or suborbiculate, 2.5–6 mm, abaxial surfaces hairy;

ovaries hairy.

gray to red-brown, ovoid, ± compressed, 7–15 mm, densely puberulent;

hypanthium tardily deciduous;

mesocarps leathery to dry;

stones ovoid, ± flattened.

yellowish orange, obovoid to ovoid, 9–16 mm, velutinous;

mesocarps leathery to dry;

stones subglobose to ovoid, slightly flattened.