毛药山梅花 mao yao shan mei hua

Shrubs 3-4 m tall. Branchlets of previous year gray, those of current year strigose. Petiole 3-5 mm; leaf blade elliptic or ovate-elliptic, 4-9 × 2-5 cm, both surfaces strigose, abaxially appressed hairy, adaxially erect hairy, base obtuse or rounded, margin serrate, apex abruptly acuminate, acumen 0.5-1.5 cm. Inflorescences 7-9-flowered; rachis 2-6 cm, strigose; pedicels 4-5 mm, strigose. Calyx tube appressed white strigose; lobes ovate, ca. 6 × 3-3.5 mm, apex acuminate. Corolla subcruciform; petals white, oblong, ca. 1.6 × 1 cm. Stamens ca. 40; anthers oblong, connective setose. Disc pubescent. Style divided at apex, ca. 5 mm, glabrous or hirtellous; stigmas clavate, shorter or narrower than anthers. Capsule subglobose, ca. 7 mm in diam., with persistent calyx lobes subapically. Seeds 2-3 mm, shortly tailed. Fl. Jun-Jul.

* Thickets. Hubei.