serrulate

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Smooth; leaves oblong-ovate to obovate, with a tapering base, sharply serrulate; petiole slender; color bright green, somewhat rusty beneath.

From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)

Leaves finely serrulate or entire Pear, Pyrus communis. 39b.

From The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State by Gleason, Henry Allan

Shrubs or low trees with alternate, simple, exstipulate, ovate, serrulate leaves, soft downy beneath.

From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)

Seeds 1 or 2, enclosed in a white membranaceous many-cleft aril.—Low evergreen shrubs, with smooth serrulate coriaceous opposite leaves and very small green flowers solitary or fascicled in the axils.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Seeds mostly pendulous.—Shrubs with petioled and serrulate leaves, and white scaly-bracted flowers in dense axillary or terminal spiked racemes.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa