广西牡荆 guang xi mu jing

Trees. Branchlets grayish green, obscurely lenticellate. Leaves 2-5-foliolate; petiole 2-7 cm; petiolules 1-1.5 cm; leaflets ovate-lanceolate to ovate, abaxially bluish green, glabrous, and yellow glandular, adaxially green and glabrescent except pubescent along veins especially along midvein, base cuneate, margin entire, apex acuminate to caudate-acuminate; central leaflet 3-6.5 X 2-3.5 cm, lateral leaflets smaller. Panicles 6-10 cm; peduncle subglabrous. Calyx ca. 2.5 mm, minutely and regularly 5-dentate, outside glabrous and glandular. Corolla yellow; tube 3.5-6 mm, outside puberulent and glandular. Stamens exserted; filaments puberulent on basal half. Ovary glabrous. Style glabrous. Fruit globose. Fl. May-Jun, fr. Jul-Sep.

* Sparse forests on mountain slopes; 300-600 m. Guangxi (Longzhou Xian and Ningming Xian).