西畴结香 xi chou jie xiang

Shrubs, branching trichotomous. Branchlets brown, pubescent. Petiole 0.6-1 mm, appressed sericeous; leaf blade green adaxially, grayish green abaxially, elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, 5.5-15 × 1.7-4.7 cm, thinly papery, both surfaces sparsely appressed sericeous, more densely so abaxially, base gradually narrowed, apex acuminate; lateral veins 10-13 pairs, conspicuous, reticulate veins visible. Inflorescences axillary, capitate, 10-17-flowered; peduncle 1.5-2 cm, densely sericeous. Calyx ca. 20 × 1.5 mm, exterior densely white shiny sericeous; lobes 4, ovate-lanceolate, ca. 4 × 1.5 mm. Anthers lanceolate, ca. 1.5 mm. Disk shallowly cup-shaped. Ovary ellipsoid, ca. 3 mm, apex white sericeous; style filiform, ca. 3 mm; stigma clavate, ca. 2 mm. Fl. spring.

● SE Yunnan (Xichou).