Flora of North America species comparison

purple to gray, glabrous or puberulent.

gray-brown, 2 cm, puberulent, glabrescent.

persistent, alternate;

petiole 5–10 mm;

blade dull reddish to yellowish brown abaxially, usually shiny green adaxially, broadly elliptic to oblong or ovate-oblong, (1.5–)2–5(–6) cm, distinctly coriaceous, base cuneate to nearly truncate, margins blunt-serrate or entire, apex acute to rounded, apiculate, both surfaces glabrous;

secondary veins 5–9 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.

3–6 mm.

1–4 mm.

red, globose, 6–8 mm;

stones 2.

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

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scales dark red to reddish brown, coriaceous, dull.