Flora of North America species comparison

erect, twigs glabrous.

deciduous to semipersistent;

blade elliptic to elliptic-ovate or ovate, coriaceous, margins irregularly and shallowly serrulate-crenulate or entire, plane, surfaces finely hairy, glabrescent;

venation reticulodromous or brochidodromous.

axillary racemes of (2–)5–12-flowered corymbs, or solitary flowers, borne on leafless stems.

sepals 5, distinct, ovate to ovate-deltate;

petals 5, connate ca. 3/4 their lengths, white, corolla broadly campanulate, lobes much shorter than tube;

stamens 10, included;

filaments straight, flattened, dilated proximally, glabrous, without spurs;

anthers with 4 awns, dehiscent by oblong pores, (disintegration tissue present in connective);

pistil 5-carpellate;

ovary 5-locular;

stigma truncate.

capsular, 5-valved, depressed-globose, dry.

40–200, ovoid;

testa smooth.

= 11.