Flora of North America species comparison

gray, stiff, glabrous or densely and softly hirtellous.

persistent, alternate;

petiole 2–10 mm;

blade usually dull green, sometimes reddish brown, abaxially, glossy to dull green adaxially, broadly elliptic to oblong, orbiculate, or ovate, 2–4.5 cm, distinctly coriaceous, base cuneate to nearly truncate, margins spinulose to spinose-dentate, apex rounded or obtuse to truncate or emarginate, both surfaces glabrous;

secondary veins 5–7 pairs, all diverging at nearly same angle.

fascicles or flowers solitary.

2–4 mm.

red, globose, 4–6(–8) mm;

stones 2.

4.

0.

= 24.