Flora of North America species comparison

with axillary end buds, glabrous or canescent.

with terminal end buds, densely hairy.

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 2–7 mm, hairy, eglandular;

blade obovate to oblong-elliptic, 3–6(–7.5) × 1.7–3.5(–4.7) cm, base obtuse to rounded, margins coarsely, singly to doubly serrate, teeth sharp, usually eglandular, sometimes glandular, glands dark, spheric, apex abruptly short-acuminate to acute, abaxial surface tomentose, adaxial rugose, hairy, sometimes sparsely so.

solitary flowers or 2-flowered fascicles.

usually solitary flowers, sometimes 2-flowered fascicles.

0–4 mm, glabrous.

0–5 mm, hairy.

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.

blooming before or at leaf emergence;

hypanthium tubular, 3.5–6 mm, glabrous or sparsely hairy (especially at bases) externally;

sepals spreading, ovate, 2.5–3.5 mm, margins serrate, sometimes glandular, abaxial surface hairy, adaxial glabrous;

petals white to pale pink (pink in bud), obovate or elliptic to suborbiculate, 9–13 mm;

ovaries glabrous proximally, villous distally.

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

hypanthium tardily deciduous;

mesocarps leathery to dry;

stones ovoid, ± flattened.

red, globose, 8–15 mm, sparsely hairy;

mesocarps fleshy;

stones ellipsoid, not flattened.

= 16.