Flora of North America species comparison

branches dark red-brown, slightly or highly glossy, glabrous;

branchlets red-brown or yellow-brown, puberulent to glabrescent, hairs wavy, curved, straight, or geniculate.

stipules absent, rudimentary, or foliaceous on early ones, foliaceous on late ones, (1–16 mm), apex acute or acuminate;

petiole convex to flat adaxially, 2–13 mm, velvety or villous adaxially;

largest medial blade usually oblanceolate, sometimes narrowly elliptic, elliptic or obovate, 29–100 × 9–37 mm, 1.7–3.9 times as long as wide, base cuneate or convex, margins strongly to slightly revolute or flat, entire, remotely serrate, crenate, or sinuate, (glands submarginal or epilaminal), apex acuminate, convex, or rounded, abaxial surface glaucous, sparsely to densely short- to long-silky or woolly, hairs (white, sometimes also ferruginous), wavy or straight, adaxial slightly glossy, pilose or moderately densely short-silky, midrib velutinous or villous, (hairs white, sometimes also ferruginous);

proximal blade margins entire, serrulate, or crenulate;

juvenile blade reddish or yellowish green, sparsely to densely villous, short- or long-silky abaxially, hairs white, sometimes also ferruginous.

stipules absent or rudimentary on early ones;

petiole convex to flat, or shallowly grooved adaxially, 4–15 mm, pilose or pubescent adaxially;

largest medial blade lorate or narrowly oblong, 40–85 × 8–25 mm, 2.9–4.8(–5.7) times as long as wide, base convex or cuneate, margins flat, entire, serrulate, or crenate, apex acute to sometimes acuminate, abaxial surface (pale), glabrous or sparsely pubescent, hairs white and ferruginous, straight, relatively short and stiff, adaxial highly glossy, glabrous, puberulent, or sparsely tomentose, hairs white and ferruginous;

proximal blade margins serrulate;

juvenile blade reddish.

adaxial nectary oblong or square, 0.4–0.9 mm;

filaments distinct, glabrous or hairy on proximal 1/2;

anthers purple turning yellow, ellipsoid to shortly cylindrical, 0.7–1.2 mm.

abaxial nectary (0–)0.6–0.9 mm, adaxial nectary oblong or narrowly oblong, 0.5–1 mm, nectaries distinct or connate and cup-shaped;

filaments distinct, hairy on proximal 1/2;

anthers (purple turning yellow), ellipsoid or shortly cylindrical.

adaxial nectary oblong or square, 0.2–0.8 mm, shorter than stipe;

stipe 0.8–2.3 mm;

ovary pyriform or obclavate, densely long-silky, beak slightly bulged below styles;

ovules 10–18 per ovary;

styles 0.2–0.6 mm;

stigmas slenderly cylindrical, 0.4–0.82–1.04 mm.

(abaxial nectary present), adaxial nectary oblong, 0.4–1 mm, (nectaries distinct);

ovary pyriform;

ovules 12–16 per ovary;

styles connate or distinct 1/2 their lengths, 0.8–1.2 mm;

stigmas flat, abaxially non-papillate with rounded tip, or slenderly cylindrical, 0.3–0.6 mm.

4.5–11 mm.

7–11 mm.

flowering before leaves emerge; staminate stout or subglobose, 18–40.5 × 8–22 mm, flowering branchlet 0–4 mm; pistillate very densely flowered, slender or stout, 18–60(–90 in fruit) × 10–22 mm, flowering branchlet 0–8 mm;

floral bract brown, black, or bicolor, 1.5–4.5 mm, apex rounded or acute, abaxially hairy, hairs straight.

staminate (stout or subglobose), 15.5–42 × 9–16 mm, flowering branchlet 1.5–11 mm; pistillate densely flowered, slender, stout, or subglobose, 25–50 × 10–20 mm, flowering branchlet 3–12 mm;

floral bract 1.6–3.6 mm, apex rounded to truncate, entire, abaxially hairy throughout or proximally, hairs white and ferruginous, wavy.

= 76.

= ca. 190, ca. 228.