Flora of North America species comparison

gray, stiff, glabrous or densely and softly hirtellous.

gray-brown, 2 cm, puberulent, glabrescent.

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, alternate to subopposite;

petiole 3–4 mm;

blade usually yellowish brown, rarely green, abaxially, green adaxially, elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, 1.5–5(–5.5) cm, herbaceous, base cuneate to rounded or truncate, margins serrulate to crenulate, apex obtuse, both surfaces minutely hirtellous, often more densely so abaxially;

secondary veins 5–8(–11) pairs, all diverging at nearly same angle.

fascicles or flowers solitary.

fascicles or flowers solitary.

2–4 mm.

1–4 mm.

red, globose, 4–6(–8) mm;

stones 2.

black, globose or slightly elongate, 4–6(–8) mm;

stones 2.

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4.

scales dark red to reddish brown, coriaceous, dull.

= 24.