Flora of North America species comparison

purplish brown, puberulent.

persistent, alternate;

petiole 4–10 mm;

blade dull to glossy yellowish green on both surfaces, elliptic to elliptic-obovate, ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, 2–4(–6) cm, distinctly coriaceous, base acute to obtuse, margins sharply serrate to spinulose-serrate, apex acute to subspinulose, both surfaces glabrous except abaxial vein axils tomentose;

secondary veins (3–)4–5 pairs, basal pair diverging much more acutely than distal pairs.

cymes or flowers solitary.

2–6 mm.

dark red, becoming black, globose, 5–7 mm;

stones 3.

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