疏花螺序草 shu hua luo xu cao

Herbs, perennial, erect or ascending, 10-25 cm tall; stems glabrous. Petiole 3.5-5 cm, glabrous; leaf blade drying papery, adaxially green, abaxially pale, elliptic or obovate-elliptic, 10-15 × 3-5 cm, both surfaces glabrous, base acute and decurrent, apex acute to acuminate; secondary veins 9-11 pairs; stipules ovate-triangular, ca. 1 cm, 2-lobed, lobes aristate-acuminate. Inflorescences and flowers not seen. Infructescence paniculate, ca. 25 cm; peduncle ca. 7 cm; axes dichasially branched 1-3 times then scorpioid; bracteoles lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 5-17 mm. Capsules ellipsoid, ca. 3 × 1.5 mm, glabrous. Fr. Jun.

● Sparse forests on limestone hills. Guangxi (Longzhou).