景东水锦树 jing dong shui jin shu

Shrubs, ca. 3 m tall; branches pubescent. Petiole 0.7-1 cm, pubescent; leaf blade drying leathery, lanceolate-elliptic, 7-10.5 × 2-4 cm, adaxially glabrous or sparsely puberulent along veins, abaxially sparsely pubescent along veins and glabrous on lamina, base cuneate or acute, apex acuminate; secondary veins 7 or 8 pairs; stipules pandurate, as wide as or wider than branchlets, apex erect, rounded. Inflorescences 9-15 × 10-15 cm, densely brown hirsute. Flowers sessile. Calyx pubescent; lobes lanceolate. Corolla pale yellow, glabrous outside; tube 2.5-3 mm, white hirsute inside; lobes ca. 0.5 mm. Anthers elliptic, ca. 0.6 mm, subsessile, partially exserted. Stigma bifid. Capsules subglobose, ca. 1.5 mm in diam., densely pubescent. Fl. and fr. May.

● Forests on mountains; ca. 1700 m. Yunnan (Jingdong).