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.

deciduous or persistent, present at flowering, alternate or opposite to subopposite, sometimes fascicled on short shoots;

blade not gland-dotted; pinnately veined, secondary veins arching, not parallel.

fascicles or flowers solitary.

axillary, within foliage, fascicles or cymes, or flowers solitary;

peduncles and pedicels not fleshy in fruit.

2–4 mm.

present.

usually unisexual, rarely some bisexual (plants polygamous);

hypanthium campanulate to cupulate, 2–3 mm wide, usually not circumscissile, rarely so at or just proximal to sepal bases;

sepals 4–5, spreading, yellowish, yellowish green, green, or greenish white to white, ovate-triangular, thin, not keeled or crested adaxially;

petals 0 or 4[–5], yellowish to cream, hooded, spatulate, not clawed;

nectary thin, lining hypanthium;

stamens 4–5, (rudimentary in pistillate flowers);

ovary superior, 2–4-locular;

styles 2–4, connate proximally.

drupes;

stones 2–4, longitudinally dehiscent.

red, globose, 4–6(–8) mm;

stones 2.

obovoid or oblong-obovoid, not beaked, longitudinally furrowed.

4.

0.

= 12.

= 24.