Flora of North America species comparison

10–30 dm;

distal branches arching, bark dark brownish red;

infrastipular prickles single or paired, curved, falcate, 6–12 × 3–7 mm, lengths varying or ± uniform, internodal prickles sometimes mixed with aciculi and glandular setae.

erect or arching, (5–)10–20 dm, sparsely branched;

bark green when young, red to orange-red with age, proximally glaucous, glabrous;

infrastipular prickles absent, internodal prickles rare, sparse, distal aciculi rare.

persistent, 4–6.5 cm;

stipules 6–10 × 2–4 mm, auricles 3–5 mm, margins stipitate-glandular, surfaces glabrous, eglandular;

petiole and rachis with pricklets, puberulent, stipitate-glandular;

leaflets 5–7(–9), viscid glands with ripe apple scent, terminal: petiolule 5–10 mm, blade mostly suborbiculate or broadly oval, 10–25 × 8–15 mm, base obtuse, margins 2- or multi-serrate, teeth 10–18 per side, apex acute to obtuse, abaxial surfaces glabrous or pubescent, usually densely viscid-glandular, adaxial green, lustrous to dull, puberulent or glabrous.

8.5–11 cm;

stipules (9–)15–25 × 4–6 mm, auricles usually flared, (2.5–)4–6 mm, margins entire or serrate, sparsely to densely stipitate-glandular, surfaces glabrous, sometimes pubescent, eglandular or glandular;

petiole and rachis with pricklets rare or absent, glabrous or puberulent to pubescent, sessile- or stipitate-glandular, sometimes eglandular;

leaflets 5–7(–9), terminal: petiolule 5–9(–13) mm, blade elliptic or ovate, sometimes obovate, (15–)25–40(–55) × (8–)12–20(–30) mm, membranous, margins 1-serrate, teeth 10–26 per side, acute, sometimes black gland-tipped, apex acute, sometimes obtuse, abaxial surfaces pale green, glabrous, sometimes pubescent or tomentulose, eglandular, adaxial green, dull to ± lustrous, glabrous, sometimes marginally hairy.

panicles, 1–3(–7)-flowered.

corymbs, 1–5(–10)-flowered.

erect, 6–9 mm, densely stipitate-glandular, sometimes mixed with aciculi [and setae];

bracts 2, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, 15 × 5 mm, margins stipitate-glandular, surfaces glabrous, eglandular.

erect, slender, 14–25 mm, glabrous, eglandular, rarely sparsely stipitate-glandular;

bracts 1 or 2, ovate-lanceolate, 14–20 × 2–8 mm, margins entire, sometimes undulate, irregularly serrate, short stipitate-glandular, surfaces glabrous, glandular.

2–4 cm diam.;

hypanthium obovoid or broadly oblong, 5–6 × 3–4 mm, eglandular, neck (0–)1–1.5 × 3–4 mm;

sepals erect or spreading, rarely reflexed, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 14–18 × 2 mm, margins mostly pinnatifid, tip 3–5 × 0.5–1 mm, abaxially densely stipitate-glandular;

petals bright or deep pink, 11–20 × 11–18 mm;

carpels 25–45, styles villous or glabrous, exsert 1–2 mm beyond stylar orifice (1.2–2 mm diam.) of hypanthial disc (2.5–4 mm diam.).

3–6(–7) cm diam.;

hypanthium ovoid or globose, 4–5 × 4.5–5 mm, glabrous, eglandular, rarely stipitate-glandular, neck (0–)0.5–0.8 × 3–3.5 mm;

sepals usually erect usually forming a beak-cap or ± reflexed, ovate-lanceolate, (12–)20–30 × 2.5–3.5 mm, tip 2.5–4 × 0.5–1.5 mm, margins entire or pinnatifid, abaxial surfaces glabrous, stipitate-glandular, rarely eglandular;

petals single, pink or rose, 13–26 × 12–26 mm;

stamens 115;

carpels 32–55, styles exsert 1–2 mm beyond stylar orifice (1.5 mm diam.) of hypanthial disc (4 mm diam.).

dark red, subglobose to broadly ovoid, ellipsoid, or pyriform, 10–25 × 7–22 mm, glabrous, sometimes setose, eglandular;

sepals tardily deciduous, mostly erect.

red, subglobose to globose, sometimes ellipsoid, urceolate, or pyriform, 8–11 × 8–11 mm, fleshy, glabrous, eglandular, rarely sparsely stipitate-glandular, neck (0–)0.5–1(–1.5) × 3.5–4.5 mm;

sepals persistent, erect or reflexed.

15–25, tan, 3.5–4(–5) × 2–2.5(–3) mm.

basiparietal, 26, tan, 3.5–4 × 1.5–3 mm.

= 35, 42.

= 14.