Flora of North America species comparison

erect or spreading, stout or lax, 4–25(–40) dm, densely or openly branched;

bark dull reddish brown, older wood with gray exfoliate, glabrous;

infrastipular prickles 0–2, erect, curved, or hooked, often flattened, stout, subulate, sometimes deltoid, (2–)3–15(–20) × 2–10(–15) mm, base glabrous, internodal prickles usually sparse or absent, smaller, mixed with aciculi, sometimes absent.

(6–)10–25(–30) dm, internodes 5–6.5 cm;

prickles (distal stems and fertile branches) usually absent, infrastipular rarely present, usually erect or subulate.

(3–)5–12(–17) cm;

stipules 12–20(–28) × 3–5(–10) mm, auricles flared, 3–6(–10) mm, margins sinuate or shallowly serrate, sparsely to ± densely stipitate-glandular, surfaces glabrous, rarely pubescent, eglandular;

petiole and rachis with pricklets absent or sparse, glabrous or pubescent, sessile- or stipitate-glandular;

leaflets 5–7(–9), terminal: petiolule (3–)5–17 mm, blade ovate, elliptic, or suborbiculate, rarely cordate or oblong, (14–)20–55(–63) × (6–)10–30(–40) mm, firm, base cuneate to obtuse, margins 1–2+-serrate, teeth 8–20 per side, often broad-based 2–4 mm, acute to obtuse, eglandular or gland-tipped, apex acute or obtuse, rarely acuminate, abaxial surfaces green, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, eglandular or sessile-glandular, adaxial green, dull, glabrous.

corymbs, 1–3(–9)-flowered.

1–3(–9)-flowered.

erect or recurved, slender to stout, 10–20(–33) mm, glabrous, eglandular or sparsely stipitate-glandular;

bracts 1 or 2(or 3), ovate, 13–20 × 4–9 mm, margins entire, surfaces glabrous, glandular or eglandular.

(3.5–)4.5–7(–8.5) cm diam.;

hypanthium globose to subglobose or ovoid, 4–10 × 5–8.5 mm, glabrous, eglandular, sometimes setose-glandular, neck (0–)0.5–1.5 × 3–6 mm;

sepals spreading, lanceolate, 14–25(–35) × (2–)3–4 mm, tip 5–10(–20) × 1–3 mm, margins entire, abaxial surfaces glabrous or slightly hairy, stipitate-glandular and sessile-glandular or eglandular;

petals single, pink to deep rose, (15–)20–32 × (15–)20–32 mm;

stamens 100;

carpels 28–58, styles exsert 1 mm beyond stylar orifice (2–2.5 mm diam.) of hypanthial disc (5 mm diam.).

red, orange-red, or purplish red, globose, depressed-globose, ovoid, oblong, or urceolate, (8–)10–20(–24) × 10–20(+) mm, fleshy, glabrous, sometimes setose, eglandular or glandular, neck (0–)1–2 × (4–)5–8 mm;

sepals persistent, erect, sometimes spreading.

basiparietal, (1–)16–40, tan to dark tan, 4–6 × 2–4 mm.

leaflet margins 1-serrate, teeth eglandular, abaxial surfaces eglandular.

abaxial surfaces usually eglandular, rarely setose or stipitate-glandular at bases.

= 42.