短裂溲疏 duan lie sou shu

Shrubs ca. 1 m tall. Flowering branchlets gray-brown, 4-5 cm, ca. 4-leaved, stellate hairy. Petiole 3-5 mm, sparsely stellate hairy; leaf blade abaxially grayish green, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 1.5-3 × 0.6-1.3 cm, papery, abaxially densely 8-14-rayed stellate hairy, adaxially sparsely 5-7-rayed stellate hairy, base broadly cuneate, margin serrulate, apex acuminate. Cymes ca. 2 × 3 cm, 6-9-flowered; pedicels 8-10 mm. Calyx tube ca. 2.5 × 3 mm, densely 10-14-rayed stellate hairy; lobes deltoid or ovate-deltoid, 1-1.5 mm. Petals white, obovate or broadly elliptic, ca. 8 × 4 mm, margin crisped, apex obtuse. Outer stamens ca. 4 mm; filaments 2-dentate at apex, teeth ± level with anthers. Inner stamens ca. 3 mm; filaments subacute or unequally 2-lobed at apex; anthers borne near middle of filaments abaxially. Styles 3(or 4), shorter than stamens. Capsule hemispheric, ca. 3 mm in diam., with persistent, erect calyx lobes. Fl. Mar, fr. Jun.

* Pinus forests, stream banks; 1200-3100 m. Sichuan.