丽叶秋海棠 li ye qiu hai tang

Stipules entire at margin, not ciliate; leaf blade suborbicular or reniform, 2.8-13.5 × 2.5-12.5 cm, apex rounded or obtuse. Inflorescences 1-3, flowers 3-15 in a dichasial cyme; staminate flowers 2-10, pistillate flowers 1-4; peduncle 4-15 cm, 1.5-2 mm in diam. Staminate flowers: pedicel 1-2 cm; tepals 4, outer 2 suborbicular to oblate, 8-13 × 8-13 mm, inner 2 tepals obovate or narrowly so, 7-8 × 2.5-3.5 mm; androecium zygomorphic; stamens 20-35; filaments subequal, 1-1.5 mm, nearly free or partly fused. Pistillate flowers: pedicel 5-12 mm, bracteole absent; tepals 3, persistent; outer 2 oblate or suborbicular, 6-10 × 8-10.5 mm; inner 1 obovate or narrowly so, 4-7 × 1.5-3.5 mm; ovary 4.5-7 mm, 2-5 mm in diam. Capsule 7-9 × 4-6 mm, apex with persistent tepals. 2n = 30*.

● Limestone hills; 200-300 m. Guangxi (Daxin).