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 2.5–7 mm, villous (hairs tawny);

blade (dull to lustrous adaxially), elliptic to oblanceolate or ovate, 16–76 × 10–54 mm, base cuneate to attenuate, margins plane, apex usually rounded to obtuse, sometimes retuse, abaxial surface villous, especially along midrib (hairs tawny, sometimes reddish brown), venation visible, adaxial surface glabrous or glabrate, midrib flat, marginal vein absent.

4–12-flowered.

3–8-flowered.

3–6 mm, glabrous.

4.5–8 mm, glabrous or glabrate.

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 2.1–2.7 mm diam.;

sepals 5, 1.4–1.8 × 1.3–1.5 mm, glabrous or villous;

petals 5, white, median segment ovate to obovate, 1.5–1.9 mm, lateral segments lanceolate, 1.5–1.8 mm;

stamens 5, 1.1–1.3 mm;

staminodes deltate to ovate, 1.9–2.5 mm, erose;

anthers sagittate, 0.7–1.5 mm;

pistil 5-carpellate;

ovary 5-locular, 1–1.4 mm, hairy;

style 0.8–1 mm.

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

purplish black, subglobose, 8–11 mm, glabrous or glabrate.

6–11 mm.

6.5–8 mm.