Flora of North America species comparison

(marcescent), stipules absent or rudimentary on early ones, foliaceous on late ones, apex rounded, convex, or acute;

petiole (rarely with spherical glands distally), 4–16 mm, puberulent or pubescent to glabrescent adaxially;

largest medial blade lorate to narrowly lanceolate, 58–155 × 7–27 mm, 4.5–10.7 times as long as wide, base cuneate to convex, margins serrulate to crenulate or entire, apex acuminate to acute, abaxial surface glabrous or glabrescent, hairs appressed, adaxial dull or slightly glossy, glabrous or pilose;

proximal blade margins entire;

juvenile blade glabrous, puberulent, pilose, or sparsely long-silky abaxially, hairs white.

abaxial nectary 0.2–0.6 mm, adaxial nectary oblong, square, or ovate, 0.2–0.6 mm, nectaries distinct or connate and cup-shaped;

stamens 3–7;

filaments hairy basally;

anthers 0.3–0.5 mm.

adaxial nectary square to oblong, 0.3–0.6 mm;

stipe 0.4–2.4 mm;

ovary pyriform to obturbinate, beak slightly bulged below or tapering to styles;

ovules 8–18 per ovary;

styles 0.2–0.3 mm;

stigmas (sometimes slenderly cylindrical), 0.18–0.27–0.32 mm.

3–6 mm.

(usually flowering throughout season and axillary, sessile), staminate 24–131 × 3–10 mm, flowering branchlet 0–12 mm;

pistillate (densely to loosely flowered), 24–47 × 6–12 mm, flowering branchlet 0–10 mm;

floral bract 0.6–2.2 mm, apex rounded to convex, irregularly toothed or entire, abaxially sparsely to moderately densely hairy proximally, hairs irregularly curly;

pistillate bract persistent after flowering.

= 38.