柳州胡颓子 liu zhou hu tui zi

Shrubs, evergreen. Spines absent; young branches densely rust-colored scaly. Petiole brown, 6-8 mm; leaf blade oblanceolate-elliptic, 5.5-7.5 × 2-2.8 cm, papery, abaxially grayish white scaly, adaxially densely stellate when young, lateral veins 7-9 per side of midrib, raised abaxially, slightly impressed adaxially, base narrowly cuneate, margin revolute and crenate, apex acute. Flowers often 1-3 in axils. Pedicel ca. 4 mm, slender. Flowers yellowish white, outside scaly. Calyx tube tubular-funnelform, 4-4.5 mm; lobes ovate-triangular, ca. 3 × 2 mm, inside light white scaly. Filaments shorter than anthers; anthers ca. 1 mm. Style erect, with sparse white stellate hairs. Fruit not seen. Fl. Dec-Jan.

● Guangxi.