白瑞香(原变种) bai rui xiang (yuan bian zhong)

Daphne cannabina Wallich, Asiat. Res. 13: 385. 1820, not Loureiro (1790); D. cavaleriei H. Léveillé; D. mairei H. Léveillé.

Branches grayish brown or grayish black, tomentose. Petiole 4-15 mm; leaf blade elliptic to oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate, membranous or papery. Calyx tube 10-12(-18) × 2.5-5 mm at throat.

Forests, shrubby slopes; 700-2000 m. Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Yunnan [India, Nepal].

"Daphne papyrifera Buchanan-Hamilton," an unpublished name listed by D. Don (Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 68. 1825) in the synonymy of D. odora, belongs here (see Meisner in A. Candolle, Prodr. 14: 537. 1857).