华中冷水花 hua zhong leng shui hua

Plants dioecious. 30-40 cm tall, Stipules almost persistent, brownish, 7-10 mm, membranous; leaf blade ovate, 33.5-10 × 3-5 cm, membranous, base cordate, rarely rounded, margin coarsely crenate-serrate, acumen serrulate. Male inflorescence a cymose-panicle, 2-4 cm; female inflorescence ca. 2 cm, shorter than petioles. Male perianth lobes not corniculate. Fl. Jun-Jul, fr. Sep-Oct.

* Moist places in broad-leaved forests; 300-1800 m. Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, SW Jiangsu, Jiangxi, E Sichuan, E Yunnan.