Flora of North America species comparison

deciduous;

petiole 1–6.5 mm, glabrous;

blade (dark green adaxially), broadly elliptic, obovate, oblanceolate, or spatulate, 6–38 × 3–23 mm, base attenuate to cuneate, margins plane, apex rounded to obtuse, surfaces glabrous, tertiary and smaller veins not prominent (inconspicuously reticulate), midrib flat, marginal vein present.

deciduous;

petiole 6–14 mm, glabrous or glabrate;

blade (lustrous dark green adaxially), elliptic, 24–111 × 12–40 mm, base attenuate, margins plane, apex acute to acuminate, abaxial surface glabrous or glabrate with hairs scattered along midrib (hairs reddish brown), venation visible, adaxial surface glabrous, midrib slightly raised, marginal vein present.

4–12-flowered.

5–14-flowered.

3–6 mm, glabrous.

1–5 mm, sericeous (hairs reddish brown).

calyx 1.8–3 mm diam.;

sepals 5, 1.7–3 × 0.9–1.9 mm, glabrous;

petals 5(–6), white to yellowish, median segment elliptic, 1.9–2.3 mm, lateral segments lanceolate, 1.3–2.3 mm;

stamens 5(–6), 2.2–2.9 mm;

staminodes lanceolate, 1.7–2.1 mm, minutely erose;

anthers lanceolate, 0.7–1 mm;

pistil 5-carpellate;

ovary 5-locular, 0.9–1.3 mm, hirsute to strigose basally;

style 2.2–2.8 mm.

calyx 1.5–2.5 mm diam.;

sepals 5, 1.5–1.6 × 1.3–1.8 mm, sericeous (hairs white to tawny);

petals 5, white to cream, median segment ovate to suborbiculate, 1.6–1.8 mm, lateral segments lanceolate, 1.3–1.6 mm;

stamens 5, 2.8–3.5 mm;

staminodes lanceolate, 1.8–2.2 mm, erose;

anthers lanceolate-sagittate, 0.8–1.3 mm;

pistil 5-carpellate;

ovary 5-locular, 1–1.2 mm, glabrous;

style 0.9–1.5 mm.

purple to purplish black, ellipsoid, 8–12 mm, glabrous.

purplish black, broadly ellipsoid to subglobose, 6–10 mm, glabrous.

6–11 mm.

4–6 mm.