钝裂溲疏 dun lie sou shu

Shrubs ca. 1.5 m tall. Flowering branchlets red-brown, 6-10 cm, 6-8-leaved. Petiole 2-3 cm; leaf blade abaxially grayish green, ovate or elliptic-ovate, 2-4 × 1.6-1.8 cm, subleathery, abaxially densely 8-11-rayed stellate hairy, indumentum continuous, adaxially sparsely 5-8(or 9)-rayed stellate hairy, veins in 3 or 4 pairs, base broadly cuneate, margin slightly serrate, apex acute. Cymes lax, 5-8 × 3-5 cm, 9-15-flowered; pedicels 1-2 cm. Calyx tube ca. 2.5 × 3 mm; lobes ovate or ovate-deltoid, ca. 1.5 × 1.5 mm, densely 8-11-rayed stellate hairy. Petals induplicate, white, oblong or obovate-elliptic, 7-9 × 2-3 mm. Outer stamens ca. 4 mm; filaments subrounded, shouldered, or 2-lobed at apex, lobes (if present) not reaching anthers; anthers stalked, ovoid. Inner stamens ca. 2 mm; filaments slightly 2-lobed at apex; anthers borne between filament lobes or near apex of filaments abaxially. Styles 3, subequaling stamens. Capsule unknown. Fl. Mar.

* Mixed forests; ca. 2000 m. W Sichuan (Jiulong Xian).

One of the present authors (Ohba) doubts the distinctness of this species.