红腺豆腐柴 hong xian dou fu chai

Shrubs ca. 1 m tall; branchlets, petioles, and peduncles yellowish brown glandular when young, glabrescent. Branchlets slender, with sparse gray elliptic lenticels. Petiole 1-1.5 cm; leaf blade ovate, 3-6.5 X 2-4 cm, papery, adaxially sparsely pubescent when young, densely orange glandular puberulent on veins, base rounded to subcordate, margin dentate, apex acuminate to acute, veins 3 or 4 pairs, 3-veined at base. Inflorescences 1.5-2.5 cm; peduncle ca. 1 cm. Calyx 6-7 mm, outside densely puberulent, inside sparsely puberulent, both surfaces orange glandular; teeth 5, narrowly triangular, ca. 2 X as long as tube. Fruit black, obovate, ca. 4 3 mm, 4-veined when dry, glabrous, without glands.

* Mountain slopes along roadsides; 1100 m. SW Yunnan.