Flora of North America species comparison

bark smooth to vertically furrowed, shredding;

twigs conspicuously multicellular eglandular-hairy (hairs unbranched), otherwise sparsely to densely unicellular-hairy.

deciduous;

petiole multicellular eglandular-hairy and unicellular-hairy;

blade ovate to obovate, 2.9–8.5 × 1.2–3.5 cm, thin, membranous to chartaceous, margins entire, plane, ciliate, eglandular-hairy, apex acute to obtuse, often mucronate, abaxial surface glabrous or densely unicellular-hairy and/or eglandular-hairy, adaxial surface scattered eglandular-hairy, otherwise sparsely unicellular-hairy, glabrate in age.

6–11-flowered;

bracts similar to bud scales.

3–12 mm, eglandular-hairy, otherwise moderately unicellular-hairy to glabrate.

opening before or with development of leaves, erect to horizontal, acrid-scented;

calyx lobes 0.5–5 mm, glabrous or unicellular-hairy and eglandular-hairy, margins eglandular-hairy;

corolla bright red to orange-red or orange, with contrasting, darker-colored, orange or yellow-orange blotch on upper lobe, funnelform, 27–51 mm, scattered, multicellular eglandular-hairy (sometimes very weakly stipitate-glandular-hairy), otherwise sparsely to moderately unicellular-hairy on outer surface, petals connate, lobes 8–22 mm (spreading nearly as broadly as tube is long), tube rather abruptly to gradually expanded into lobes, 17–34 mm, longer than lobes;

stamens 5, much exserted, ± unequal, 40–73 mm.

borne on erect pedicels, 15–30 × 4.5–8 mm, densely, stiffly eglandular-hairy and unicellular-hairy.

without distinct tails, flattened portion of testa well devloped at each end;

testa expanded, dorsiventrally flattened, ± loose.

bud scales glabrous or densely unicellular-hairy abaxially, margins densely unicellular-ciliate.

= 26.