Flora of North America species comparison

bark smooth to vertically furrowed, shredding;

twigs multicellular stipitate-glandular-hairy and eglandular-hairy (hairs basally branched, crisped/matted), glabrate in age.

persistent;

petiole multicellular-hairy (hairs ± branched), often glabrescent;

blade oblong to obovate or elliptic, (6–)9–20(–31) × (1.5–)2–5(–8) cm (length/width ratio 2.4–8), thick, coriaceous, margins entire, revolute to ± plane, glabrous or sparsely hairy (hairs branched), apex acuminate to sometimes acute, surfaces scattered stipitate-glandular-hairy and eglandular-hairy (hairs forming dense mat, basally branched, crisped, abaxially becoming sticky and matted, forming ± scaly or continuous, pale, shellaclike coating, smooth to slightly roughened, hairs ± deciduous adaxially).

10–25-flowered;

bracts similar to bud scales.

17–60 mm, multicellular stipitate-glandular-hairy.

opening after development of leaves (of flowering shoots), erect to horizontal, not or only slightly fragrant;

calyx lobes 2–6 mm, stipitate-glandular-hairy;

corolla white to pink, rarely deep pink to purple, with yellowish green spots on upper lobe, campanulate, 20–36 mm, scattered stipitate-glandular-hairy on outer surface, petals connate, lobes 10–23 mm, tube gradually expanding into lobes, 7–16 mm;

stamens 10, included, ± unequal, 14–26 mm; (ovary stipitate-glandular-hairy).

borne on erect pedicels, 8–20 × 4–6.5 mm, stipitate-glandular-hairy.

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

testa expanded, dorsiventrally flattened, loose.

bud scales stipitate-glandular-hairy, eglandular-hairy (hairs ferruginous, crisped), and short unicellular-hairy abaxially, margins hairy (hairs branched, long-celled).

= 26.