柳叶水锦树 liu ye shui jin shu

Ligustrum thea H. Léveillé & Dunn.

Shrubs, to ca. 1 m tall; branches flattened to terete, hirtellous or strigillose to glabrescent. Leaves opposite; petiole 0.5-3 mm; blade drying thinly leathery, narrowly lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 2-6.5 × 0.4-1.2 cm, glabrous on both surfaces or sparsely pubescent along midrib abaxially, base acute, margin usually edged with thickened vein, apex acute to weakly acuminate; secondary veins 5-7 pairs; stipules generally persistent, triangular, 1.5-4 mm, densely strigillose to hirtellous, apex erect, acute to aristate. Inflorescences paniculate, pyramidal in outline, 2-5 × 1-3 cm, branched to 2 or 3 orders, densely hirtellous to strigillose, sessile and tripartite or pedunculate; peduncle 0.4-0.7 cm; bracts linear, 1-5 mm; pedicels 0.3-1 mm. Flowers subsessile to pedicellate. Calyx moderately to sparsely strigillose; hypanthium portion ellipsoid to subglobose, ca. 0.8 mm; limb lobed nearly to base; lobes triangular, 0.3-0.5 mm. Corolla pale reddish white, funnelform, glabrous outside; tube 2-5 mm, apparently pubescent inside upper part; lobes linear-oblong, 2-2.5 mm. Filaments ca. 1 mm; anthers linear-lanceolate, ca. 1.4 mm, partially exserted. Stigma 2-lobed, 0.8-1 mm. Capsules subglobose to ovoid, ca. 1.5 × 2 mm, moderately to sparsely strigillose. Fl. Nov, fr. Jan of following year.

Streamsides in ravines and forests on hill slopes; 100-200 m. Guangxi (Donglan), Guizhou (Guanling), Yunnan [Laos, Vietnam].