Flora of North America species comparison

gray, stiff, glabrous or densely and softly hirtellous.

dark purple or purple-red, glabrous.

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, usually opposite to subopposite, sometimes alternate, usually fascicled on short shoots, separating with age;

petiole 10–28 mm;

blade green abaxially, darker green adaxially, usually broadly ovate, ovate, oblong-ovate, or ovate-cordate, sometimes ovate-orbiculate, 2.5–6(–7) cm, herbaceous, base truncate to cordate, margins spinulose-serrate, apex obtuse-rounded or acute, both surfaces glabrous or abaxial puberulent along veins;

secondary veins (3–)4–5 pairs, all diverging at nearly same angle or proximal diverging more obtusely.

fascicles or flowers solitary.

fascicles or flowers solitary.

2–4 mm.

10–24(–30) mm.

red, globose, 4–6(–8) mm;

stones 2.

black, globose to obovoid-globose, 7–10 mm;

stones 3.

4.

4.

0.

4.

= 24.

= 24.