异叶紫珠 yi ye zi zhu

Subshrubs to shrubs, 30-100 cm tall. Branchlets terete, sparsely yellowish gray stellate tomentose. Petiole less than 5 mm; leaf blade linear-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, usually oblique, 10-33 X 1.5-4.5 cm, membranous, abaxially glabrous and densely yellow glandular, adaxially pubescent especially on midvein, base narrowly cuneate, margin subentire to loosely serrulate, apex attenuate-acuminate, veins 9-12 pairs. Cymes small, 5-10 mm across; peduncle ca. 3 mm, stellate tomentose, yellow glandular; bracts lanceolate. Pedicel ca. 2 mm. Calyx cup-shaped, ca. 1.2 mm, teeth obtusely triangular. Corolla white, ca. 3 mm. Filaments shorter than corolla tube; anthers exserted, elliptic, ca. 1.5 mm, yellow glandular. Fruit elliptic to subglobose, ca. 2 mm in diam. Fl. and fr. Jun-Aug.

* Dense forests on mountain slopes; 900-1300 m. Guangxi, Guizhou.