胀果美登木 zhang guo mei deng mu

Shrubs, 3-4 m tall; branches cinereous or cinereous-brown. Leaf blade elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, 7-14 × 3-7 cm, membranous, base cuneate or narrowly cuneate, margin crenate, apex acuminate; lateral veins 8-13 pairs, webbing with veinlets, obvious on both surfaces. Cymes terminal, dichotomous or trichotomous; fructiferous cymes ca. 4 cm; peduncles and pedicels nearly equal in length. Capsule subglobose, ca. 1.5 cm in diam., inflated, valves thinly leathery. Fr. Dec.

● Mountain slopes; ca. 1200 m. Yunnan.