Flora of North America species comparison

light brown with shallow ridges and large plates.

light brown to gray, deeply fissured or split into plates.

often with opposite corky wings;

twigs reddish brown, pubescent.

pendulous, old-growth branches smooth, not winged;

twigs brown, pubescent to glabrous.

brown, apex acute, pubescent;

scales dark brown, shiny, glabrous.

brown, apex acute, glabrous;

scales reddish brown, pubescent.

blade ovate to elliptic, 2.5-5 × 1.3-2 cm, base oblique or rounded to cuneate, margins crenate to doubly serrate, apex obtuse;

surfaces abaxially softly pubescent, adaxially harshly pubescent.

blade oval to oblong-obovate, 7-14 × 3-7 cm, base oblique, margins doubly serrate, apex acute to acuminate;

surfaces abaxially glabrous to slightly pubescent, tufts in axils of veins, adaxially glabrous to scabrous.

fascicles, 2-5-flowered, 0.5 cm;

pedicel 0.75-1 cm.

fascicles, less than 2.5 cm, flowers and fruits drooping on elongate pedicels;

pedicel 1-2 cm.

calyx deeply lobed, more than 1/2 its length, lobes 6-9, hairy;

stamens 5-6, anthers reddish purple;

stigmas white, pubescent, exserted and spreading.

calyx shallowly lobed, slightly asymmetric, lobes 7-9, margins ciliate;

stamens 7-9;

anthers red;

stigmas white-ciliate, deeply divided.

somewhat thickened, not inflated.

thickened, not inflated.

hard.

soft.

green to tan, elliptic to oval, ca. 0.75-1 cm, pubescent, margins ciliate, cilia ca. 0.5 mm.

yellow-cream when mature, sometimes tinged with reddish purple (s range of species), ovate, ca. 1 cm, narrowly winged, margins ciliate, cilia yellow to white, to 1 mm.

= 28.

= 56.