Flora of North America species comparison

bark smooth to vertically furrowed, shredding;

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

deciduous;

petiole usually multicellular eglandular-hairy and unicellular-hairy;

blade ovate to obovate, 2–7(–9) × 1–3(–3.8) cm, ± thin, membranous to chartaceous, margins entire or, sometimes, minutely serrulate, plane, ciliate, eglandular-hairy, apex acute to obtuse, often mucronate, abaxial surface glabrous or densely unicellular-hairy, adaxial surface (lustrous or dull), glabrous or sparsely scattered eglandular-hairy, sometimes also sparsely unicellular-hairy.

3–14-flowered;

bracts similar to bud scales.

5–27 mm, stipitate-glandular- or, sometimes, eglandular-hairy, otherwise sparsely to densely unicellular-hairy.

opening after leaves, erect to horizontal, slightly to strongly fragrant (most noticeable at night);

calyx lobes 0.5–5 mm, surfaces and margins scattered stipitate-glandular-hairy or, sometimes, eglandular-hairy, often also unicellular-hairy;

corolla white, sometimes pink-tinged or pink (not strongly contrasting with white or greenish to pinkish style or filaments), without blotch on upper lobe, funnelform, 20–58 mm, usually scattered, often conspicuously stipitate-glandular-hairy (hairs continuing in lines up lobes), otherwise sparsely to moderately unicellular-hairy on outer surface, petals connate, lobes 7–21 mm, tube usually ± gradually expanded into lobes, 13–37 mm (equaling or much longer than lobes);

stamens 5, much exserted, ± unequal, 21–65 mm.

borne on erect pedicels, 7–20 × 3–7 mm, usually densely stipitate-glandular- and/or eglandular-hairy, otherwise densely unicellular-hairy to ± glabrous.

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

testa expanded, dorsiventrally flattened, ± loose.

bud scales glabrous or densely unicellular-hairy abaxially (sometimes with sharply marked, dark brown band along distal margins), margins unicellular-ciliate or, sometimes, glandular-serrulate.

= 26.