鄂北荛花 e bei rao hua

Daphne pampaninii (Rehder) Halda.

Shrubs 0.5-0.7(-1.5) m tall. Branches erect, turning purplish brown in second year, terete, slender, smooth, densely white strigose; leaf buds subglobose, white pubescent. Leaves alternate; petiole ca. 1 mm, densely pubescent; leaf blade elliptic or obovate-elliptic or narrowly elliptic, 1-2 × 0.4-0.8 cm, membranous, both surfaces long strigose to tomentose, margin slightly revolute, apex acute; midrib conspicuously raised abaxially, lateral veins remote and obscure. Inflorescences terminal and subterminal, spicate, often paniculate, many flowered. Pedicel absent. Calyx yellow; tube 3-4(-5) mm, exterior densely appressed puberulous; lobes 4, ovate, ca. 1.5 mm, outside puberulous. Stamens 8, lower whorl inserted above middle of calyx tube, upper whorl at throat, subsessile; anthers oblong, ca. 0.8 mm; upper ones almost exserted from calyx tube. Disk scales 2, unequal, linear or lanceolate, ca. 1 mm, apex 2- or 3-toothed. Ovary ca. 3 mm, densely appressed hirsute; style short; stigma surrounded by hairs. Drupe reddish, ellipsoid, ca. 6 mm, pubescent. Fl. Jul-Aug, fr. Sep.

● Open mixed forests, shrubby slopes; 400-1100(-2800) m. Gansu, Henan, Hubei, Shaanxi, Shanxi.