密花水锦树 mi hua shui jin shu

Shrubs, ca. 3 m tall; branches terete to subquadrangular, brown strigillose. Leaves opposite; petiole 0.7-1.2 cm, puberulent; blade drying subleathery, elliptic, 7-12 × 2.5-6 cm, adaxially glabrescent or sparsely puberulent along midrib, abaxially puberulent, base cuneate, margin sparsely ciliolate, apex shortly acuminate; secondary veins 8-10 pairs; stipules generally persistent, ovate to pandurate, ca. 7 mm, sparsely puberulent, apex spreading to reflexed, rounded to 2-lobed. Inflorescences paniculate, branched to 2-4 orders, 18-20 × 18-20 cm, puberulent, sessile and tripartite or pedunculate; peduncle 3-4 cm; lower bracts leaflike, upper bracts linear-lanceolate, oblong, oblong-lanceolate, or oblanceolate, 2-6 mm, strigillose. Flowers sessile in fasciculate groups. Calyx glabrous or sparsely puberulent; hypanthium portion subglobose, ca. 2 mm; limb lobed nearly to base; lobes ovate or ovate-triangular, ca. 1.5 mm. Corolla white, tubular-funnelform, glabrous outside; tube ca. 4 mm, in throat white hirsute; lobes ovate, ca. 1 mm. Anthers elliptic, ca. 1 mm, subsessile, partially exserted. Stigma 2-lobed. Capsules not seen. Fl. Mar.

● Forests in ravines; ca. 300 m. Guangxi (Shangsi).