Flora of North America species comparison

blade drying concolorous olive or adaxially dark green, narrowly elliptic or lanceolate, 12–24 × 3–5 cm, leathery, veins brown abaxially, base narrowly cuneate or gradually rounded, apex narrowly acuminate, surfaces glandular, glands numerous abaxially, obscure adaxially.

usually 2–8-flowered, usually terminal, racemes;

axis terete or quadrangular, 10–20 × 2–3 mm;

bracts and bracteoles caducous.

pedicellate (pedicels 7–15 mm);

bud pyriform, 25–30 mm;

hypanthium infundibular or obconic, 12–17 mm, tube 4–5 mm deep, 9–10 mm diam. at mouth, base abruptly contracted to pseudostalk, 3–5 mm;

calyx lobes persistent, widely elliptic, in subequal pairs, 4–8 × 6–10 mm, convex, leathery, margins scarious, apex rounded;

petals distinct, orbiculate, 10–15 mm diam., margins scarious, prominently glandular;

stamens ca. 300, 20–40 mm;

style 40–60 mm.

yellow or reddish, subglobose, 30–40 mm;

calyx lobes persistent, erect in developing fruit.

= 22.