罗香胡颓子 luo xiang hu tui zi

Shrubs, evergreen, erect or decumbent. Spines absent; young branches scaly. Petiole rust-colored, 7-9 mm; leaf blade abaxially brownish rust-colored, elliptic, broadly elliptic, or ovate-elliptic, 5-8 × 2.8-4 cm, papery or thinly leathery, abaxially densely fine scaly, lateral veins 8-10 per side of midrib, raised abaxially, inconspicuous adaxially, base rounded, margin entire, apex acute. Flowers 3-5 in axils. Pedicel 3-4 mm. Flowers brownish rust-colored, outside densely rust-colored scaly. Calyx tube tubular-campanulate, 4-4.5 mm; lobes triangular or ovate-triangular, 3.5-4 mm, inside densely brown scaly, apex acute. Filaments very short, ca. 0.5 mm; anthers oblong, ca. 1.5 mm. Style erect, with dense white stellate hairs. Fruit not seen. Fl. Dec-Feb.

● SE Guangxi.