高山水锦树 gao shan shui jin shu

Shrubs, tufted to prostrate, 0.3-1 m tall; branches subterete, puberulent. Leaves opposite, subsessile; petiole to ca. 1 mm, glabrescent; blade drying leathery, ovate or suborbicular, 0.4-1 × 0.3-0.6 mm, glabrescent on both surfaces, base obtuse to cuneate, apex obtuse, subacute, or shortly acuminate; secondary veins indistinct; stipules deciduous, triangular, ca. 1 mm, glabrescent, apex erect, apparently acute. Inflorescences paniculate to cymose, 6-12-flowered, 0.6-1 × 0.6-1 cm, branched to 2 orders, puberulent, pedunculate; peduncle ca. 0.2 cm; bracts ca. 1 mm; pedicels 2-3 mm. Flowers pedicellate. Calyx puberulent; hypanthium portion ellipsoid, ca. 1.5 mm; limb deeply lobed; lobes triangular or lanceolate, 1.5-2 mm. Corolla white or pale yellow, tubular, outside glabrous; tube ca. 2.5 mm; lobes linear-oblong, ca. 3.5 mm. Filaments ca. 3 mm; anthers linear-lanceolate, ca. 2 mm, exserted. Stigma 2-lobed, ca. 1.2 mm. Capsules subglobose, 2-2.5 mm in diam., pubescent. Fl. May-Jul, fr. Sep-Oct.

● Open spaces or thickets on mountain slopes; 1800-3100 m. Yunnan.