Flora of North America species comparison

spreading to erect, branching, cinereous-tomentulose.

usually alternate, rarely opposite, bifacial;

blade narrowly elliptic, elliptic, or ovate, coriaceous, margins entire, strongly revolute, abaxial surface densely white- to cinereous-tomentose, adaxial glabrous.

dense panicles, 4–12-flowered, (axis cinereous-tomentulose).

recurved, unbranched.

bisexual;

sepals persistent, (4–)5, connate basally, ovate;

petals (4–)5, connate 1/2+ their lengths, white or pink (rose), corolla urceolate;

stamens (8–)10, included;

anthers with 2 awns, dehiscent by slitlike pores;

filaments elongate, dilated near base, (hairy);

ovary (4–)5-locular, (hairy);

stigma capitate.

sepals dark red, tomentose, lobes reflexed;

corolla 7–9 mm;

nectary disc crateriform;

style elongate;

stigma minute.

red to almost black, subglobose, dry, with smooth exocarp and thin pulpy layer;

pyrenes 5, connate into smooth, solid stone.

5–8 × 6–10 mm.

5, connate.

ovoid.

= 13.

= 26.