Flora of North America species comparison

thorns abundant;

young twigs yellowish brown-hairy, glabrescent.

stipules 3–7 mm;

petiole 2–6 mm;

blade elliptic, oblong, or oblong-obovate, 1.5–5 × 1–2 cm, base rounded to cuneate, margins entire or remotely serrulate distally (on vigorous shoots), apex obtuse, apiculate, or aristate, surfaces yellowish brown-hairy, glabrescent (abaxial becoming slightly glaucescent).

alternate, sometimes opposite, simple, sometimes pinnately compound;

stipules present or absent.

3–4 cm diam.

5–10 mm, yellowish brown-hairy.

8–10 mm diam.;

hypanthium hairy;

calyx brown- or yellowish brown-puberulent when young, glabrescent, sepals broadly elliptic or triangular, 1–1.5 mm, apex obtuse;

petals ovate, 4–5 mm, apex slightly apiculate.

torus absent or minute;

carpels 1–5(–8), distinct or +/- connate (Maleae), free or +/- adnate to hypanthium (many Maleae), styles distinct or +/- connate (some Maleae);

ovules (1 or)2(–5+), collateral, clustered, or biseriate.

follicles aggregated or not, capsules, drupes aggregated or not, aggregated drupelets, pomes, or aggregated nutlets, rarely achenes or aggregated achenes;

styles persistent or deciduous, not elongate (elongate in Gillenieae).

bright red, 4–7 mm diam.;

pedicels 5–12 mm.

= 8, 9, 15, 17.