红腺紫珠 hong xian zi zhu

Shrubs ca. 2 m tall. Branchlets grayish, terete, with stellate hairs, brownish red glandular. Petiole 2-5 mm; leaf blade ovate-oblong to elliptic-lanceolate, 4-8 X 1-2.5 cm, abaxially with stellate hairs on midvein and densely red-brown glandular, adaxially glabrous, base cuneate, margin serrate above middle, apex caudate-acuminate, veins 5-8 pairs. Cymes ca. 1 cm across; peduncle ca. 5 mm; bracts linear. Calyx ca. 1 mm, truncate, densely brownish red glandular. Corolla pinkish to nearly white, ca. 2.5 mm. Stamens long exserted. Ovary glabrous, brownish red glandular. Fruit globose, ca. 2 mm in diam., sparsely brownish red glandular. Fl. spring.

* Mixed forests on mountain slopes; 400-1400 m. Hainan.