贵州水锦树 gui zhou shui jin shu

Wendlandia feddei H. Léveillé.

Shrubs or small trees, 1.5-3 m tall; branches brown, subterete, strigillose to glabrescent. Leaves opposite; petiole 0.8-1.2 cm, strigillose; blade drying subleathery, ovate, elliptic, or oblanceolate-elliptic, 4.5-13.5 × 2-6 cm, adaxially glabrous to sparsely strigillose on lamina and sparsely pubescent along midrib, abaxially sparsely hirsute with pubescence denser along veins, base obtuse to acute, apex acute or acuminate; secondary veins 7-10 pairs; stipules generally persistent, broadly triangular, ca. 5 mm, strigillose, apex erect, cuspidate. Inflorescence paniculate, pyramidal to ovate in outline, 7-21 × 6-15 cm, densely many flowered, branched to 2 or 3 orders, densely yellowish brown pilosulous, sessile and tripartite or pedunculate; peduncle 1-6 cm; bracts triangular, 1-3 mm. Flowers sessile. Calyx densely hirtellous to pilosulous; hypanthium portion subglobose, ca. 1 mm; limb deeply lobed; lobes narrowly triangular, 1-1.2 mm. Corolla white or purple, tubular-funnelform, glabrous to pilosulous; tube ca. 3.5 mm, inside white villosulous; lobes ovate to elliptic, ca. 1 mm. Anthers elliptic, ca. 0.8 mm, subsessile, partially exserted. Stigma 2-lobed, ca. 0.7 mm. Capsules globose, ca. 1.5 mm in diam., pilosulous. Fl. Mar-Apr, fr. Apr.

● Forests or thickets on hill slopes; 200-700 m. Guangxi (Tianyang), Guizhou.

W. C. Chen (in FRPS 71(1): 203. 1999) described the corollas as glabrous outside, but Cowan (Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 16: 263-264. 1932) specifically noted that the corollas of Wendlandia cavaleriei vary from glabrous to pubescent in China, as described here.