圆基木藜芦 yuan ji mu li lu

Shrubs to 4 m tall. Twigs slender, glabrous. Petiole 0.8–1.5 cm, glabrous; leaf blade ovate-elliptic or broadly elliptic, 5–11 × 3.5–4.5 cm, leathery, abaxially scattered shortly setaceous, adaxially glabrous, base obtuse-rounded, margin denticulate, apex caudate-acuminate. Inflorescence 3–5 cm; bracts broadly ovate, ca. 2.5 mm, glabrous. Pedicel 4–7 mm. Calyx lobes ovate, ca. 3 mm. Corolla white, suburceolate, 5–6 mm; lobes shortly triangular. Filaments ca. 2 mm. Capsule 4–6 mm in diam. Seeds ellipsoid, 1.2–1.6 mm. Fl. Mar, fr. Jun–Nov.

Forests, thickets on dry slopes; 2000–2300 m. Guizhou, SE Yunnan [N Vietnam].