Flora of North America species comparison

light brown with shallow ridges and large plates.

olive green to gray, shedding in irregular, tan to orange plates.

often with opposite corky wings;

twigs reddish brown, pubescent.

long-pendulous, not winged;

twigs tan to dark brown, glabrous to pubescent.

brown, apex acute, pubescent;

scales dark brown, shiny, glabrous.

acute to obtuse;

scales 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 elliptic to ovate-obovate, (3.5-)4-5(-6) × 1.5-2.5 cm, base oblique, margins mostly singly serrate (some doubly serrate), apex acute;

surfaces abaxially pale, glabrate, adaxially dark green, lustrous, glabrous;

lateral veins forking 5 or more times per side.

fascicles, 2-5-flowered, 0.5 cm;

pedicel 0.75-1 cm.

fascicles, (2-)3-4(-8)-flowered;

pedicel 8-10 mm.

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 reddish brown, deeply lobed, lobes (3-)4-5, glabrous;

stamens 3-4;

anthers reddish;

stigma lobes white-pubescent, exserted, recurved and spreading with maturity.

somewhat thickened, not inflated.

thickened, not inflated.

hard.

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

green to light brown, elliptic to ovate, ca. 1 cm, not winged, seeds nearly filling samara, notched at apex, glabrous.

= 28.

= 28.