Flora of North America species comparison

gray, stiff, glabrous or densely and softly hirtellous.

purplish brown, puberulent.

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.

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.

fascicles or flowers solitary.

cymes or flowers solitary.

2–4 mm.

2–6 mm.

red, globose, 4–6(–8) mm;

stones 2.

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

stones 3.

4.

5.

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0.

= 24.