Flora of North America species comparison

branches yellow-brown, gray-brown, or yellowish, not glaucous, glabrous or puberulent;

branchlets yellow-brown or yellowish (sometimes color obscured by hairs), glabrous, densely to sparsely villous, velvety, or puberulent.

branches yellow-brown to red-brown, glabrous;

branchlets yellowish, streaked with red or red-brown, glabrous or puberulent, nodes hairy.

stipules (not adnate to petioles), rudimentary or absent on early ones, (late ones sometimes brownish, linear, 5.4–10.4 mm), apex acuminate;

petiole shallowly grooved adaxially, 4–13 mm, villous, puberulent, or velvety adaxially;

largest medial blade linear, lorate, narrowly oblong, or narrowly elliptic, 53–130 × 5–33 mm, base cuneate, margins strongly revolute, sinuate or apparently entire, (glands epilaminal), apex acuminate, acute, or convex, abaxial surface apparently glaucous (obscured by hairs), densely short-silky, woolly, or tomentose, (midribs prominent, yellowish, and hairy), hairs appressed, spreading or erect, straight or wavy, adaxial dull or slightly glossy, sparsely or moderately densely pubescent, hairs gray;

proximal blade margins entire;

juvenile blade yellowish green, very densely tomentose or short-silky abaxially, hairs white.

(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.

adaxial nectary narrowly oblong or oblong, 0.6–1.5 mm;

filaments distinct;

anthers purple turning yellow, ellipsoid to shortly cylindrical, 0.6–0.8 mm.

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 narrowly oblong or oblong, 0.9–1.4 mm;

ovary pyriform, beak gradually tapering to styles;

ovules 12–18 per ovary;

styles 0.6–1.8 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.

4–6 mm.

3–6 mm.

flowering just before or as leaves emerge; staminate stout, 24–48 mm, flowering branchlet 0–2 mm; pistillate densely flowered, 23–55 mm, flowering branchlet 0–6 mm;

floral bract brown or tawny, 1.6–2.2 mm, apex convex or rounded, abaxially hairy, hairs straight.

(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.

= 38.