Flora of North America species comparison

persistent.

blades usually pale green or glaucous abaxially, green adaxially, elliptic, 20–80 × 9–32 mm, ± membranous, margins usually entire, inrolled on more-coriaceous blades, surfaces glabrous or densely hairy, rarely glandular.

terminal, racemes, on lateral twigs, on previous year’s shoots or older woody stems.

2–7-flowered, sometimes flowers solitary.

articulated with calyx tube.

subtended by leaflike bract (ca. as long as flower).

sepals 5;

petals 4–5, connate for nearly their entire lengths, corolla cylindric or urceolate;

stamens 10, included;

anthers ± without awns, tubules 1–1.5 mm, with terminal pores.

corolla lobes spreading at anthesis, white to greenish white, sometimes purple veined, 4–8 mm;

filaments glabrous or hairy.

[4-], 5-, [pseudo 8-, or pseudo 10]-locular.

green, yellow-green, yellow, purple, or black, often lightly glaucous, 7–18 mm diam., sometimes hairy and sparsely glandular.

10–25, (ca. 1 mm).

= 24.