疏花水锦树 shu hua shui jin shu

Small trees, 5-8 m tall; branches mealy puberulent. Petiole 0.7-1.5 cm, glabrescent; leaf blade drying papery to thinly leathery, lanceolate-elliptic to elliptic, 4.5-13 × 2-5 cm, both surfaces glabrous throughout or puberulent on principal veins, base acute to obtuse, apex acute to shortly acuminate; secondary veins 6 or 7 pairs; stipules persistent, broadly triangular, 2.4-4.5 mm, glabrescent, apex erect, cuspidate. Inflorescences paniculate, pyramidal, 13-22 × 12-18 cm, densely puberulent; pedicels 2-4.5 mm. Flowers pedicellate. Calyx puberulent to glabrous; hypanthium portion turbinate; limb lobed nearly to base; lobes ovate. Corolla white, tubular-salverform, outside puberulent to glabrous; tube 3.5-4 mm, sparsely puberulent inside; lobes subrounded, ca. 1 mm. Anthers elliptic, ca. 0.8 mm, partially exserted. Stigma 2-lobed. Capsules subglobose, glabrescent. Fl. Nov, fr. Jul, Dec.

● Mixed forests; 500-1000 m. Yunnan (Jingdong).