Flora of North America species comparison

gray, stiff, glabrous or densely and softly hirtellous.

greenish to brown, 5 cm, minutely 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, usually alternate, rarely subopposite;

petiole 3–6(–8) mm;

blade green abaxially, glossy green or yellow-green adaxially, usually lanceolate, sometimes elliptic-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 3–8 cm, herbaceous to subcoriaceous, base cuneate, margins crenulate to serrulate, apex acute to obtuse or rounded, both surfaces glabrous;

secondary veins 7–11 pairs, all diverging at nearly same angle.

fascicles or flowers solitary.

axillary fascicles or flowers solitary.

2–4 mm.

(0–)0.5–2.5 mm.

red, globose, 4–6(–8) mm;

stones 2.

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

stones 2.

4.

4.

0.

4.

scales pale golden to yellowish, thin, glossy.

= 24.