Flora of North America species comparison

reddish brown.

stipules 2–3.5 mm, membranous, margins strongly sericeous;

petiole 3–10 mm;

blade weakly bicolored, narrowly to broadly ovate, 4.5–7.5(–10) × 2–4(–6.5) cm, base rounded to broadly cuneate, plicate between impressed veins, apex acuminate, abaxial surface more strongly sericeous, hairs 0.1–0.2 mm.

alternate, sometimes opposite, simple, sometimes pinnately compound;

stipules present or absent.

6–13 mm (to 30 mm and expanding in fruit).

epicalyx bractlets linear-lanceolate, leafy, 2.5–5 × 1 mm;

sepals 8–15(–18) mm, thickened basally, distally leafy, fimbriate-serrate, acuminate, sericeous-strigose;

petals spreading, 17–22 mm, margins entire-erose;

stamens in several series mostly at sepal bases, rarely onto torus, filaments white, 4–6 mm, anthers yellow, 0.5–0.7 mm;

torus 2–2.5 mm, interior densely sericeous-strigose, exterior glabrous;

styles linear.

torus absent or minute;

carpels 1–5(–8), distinct or +/- connate (Maleae), free or +/- adnate to hypanthium (many Maleae), styles distinct or +/- connate (some Maleae);

ovules (1 or)2(–5+), collateral, clustered, or biseriate.

follicles aggregated or not, capsules, drupes aggregated or not, aggregated drupelets, pomes, or aggregated nutlets, rarely achenes or aggregated achenes;

styles persistent or deciduous, not elongate (elongate in Gillenieae).

= 8, 9, 15, 17.

= 18.