圆叶野桐 yuan ye ye tong

Shrubs ca. 3 m tall. Branchlets yellow stellate-pubescent and villous. Stipules linear, 5-7 mm; petiole 5-10 cm; leaf blade orbicular-ovate, 8-20 × 7-18 cm, papery, adaxially villous, abaxially stellate-pilose and villous along veins, glandular-scaly, base rotund, broadly peltate, with 2-4 basal glands, margin repand-denticulate, apex caudate-acuminate; basal veins 7-9. Male inflorescences terminal, unbranched, 4-12 cm, tomentose; bracts linear, ca. 5 mm. Male flowers 3-5-fascicled; sepals 4, oblong, ca. 2 mm, pubescent; stamens 25-35. Female inflorescences 10-15 cm, tomentose. Female flowers: calyx urceolate, 6-lobed, lanceolate, ca. 3 mm, pbescent; ovary densely pilose; style 3-4 mm, base connate, plumose. Capsule 3-locular, ca. 12 mm in diam., pilose and shortly softly spiny; pedicel 5-7 mm. Seeds subglobose, ca. 4.5 mm, brownish. Fl. Jul-Aug, fr. Aug-Sep.

Mountain slopes, forests; 800-1000 m. Yunnan (Yingjiang) [NE India].

The dried material smells of fenugreek.