白结香 bai jie xiang

Shrubs to 1-5 m tall, branching usually trichotomous. Branchlets brownish yellow, slender; leaf scars visible, ca. 2 mm wide. Leaves lasting 2 years; petiole 2-10 mm, pubescent; leaf blade green adaxially, grayish green abaxially, oblanceolate, 3.5-15 × 1-6 cm, abaxially glabrous or puberulous along midrib, adaxially glabrous, base gradually narrowed, margin slightly revolute, apex acute; lateral veins 8-10 pairs, conspic- uous. Inflorescences subterminal on branches, capitate, 30-50-flowered; peduncle 0.5-2.3 cm, densely sericeous. Calyx white inside, ca. 14 mm, exterior densely white sericeous; lobes 4, broadly ovate, 2.5-3 × ca. 1 mm, apex acute. Anthers oblong, ca. 1.5 mm, base rounded. Disk lacerate. Ovary ellipsoid, ca. 3.5 mm, apex fascicled white sericeous; style puberulous, ca. 3 mm; stigma clavate, ca. 2 mm. Drupe ovoid, ca. 4 mm, apex sericeous.

● Forests, valleys; 1000-1200 m. SW Sichuan (Huili, Miyi).