Deutzia staminea R. Br. ex Wall.

Shrubs 1-2 m tall. Bark dark grey, peeling off in thin longitudinal strips. Leaves 2.5-4.5 cm long, 1-2 cm broad, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate minutely serrate, scabrid above with 5-rayed stellate hairs, each with an upright ray in the centre; grey tomentose below with 8-9-rayed stellate hairs with upright rays; petiole 2-4 mm long. Flowers 8-15, in short trichotomous panicles, white, fragrant, 5-8 mm in diam. Sepals oblong to lanceolate, c. 2 mm long, 1 mm broad, stellately pubescent with 10-rayed stellate hairs with upright rays. Petals oblong, 7-12 mm long, 3-4 mm broad, stellately pubescent without upright rays in the centre. Stamens 10, 5 with filaments, 2.5 mm long, alternating with the petals and 5 short with filaments, 0.5 mm long, antipetalous; lateral teeth horn-like. Styles 4, filiform, included. Capsule 3-4 mm in diam., subglobose with truncate apex.

Shrubs 2-5 m tall. Flowering branchlets 2-5 cm, 2-6-leaved. Petiole 1.5-2.5 mm; leaf blade abaxially grayish green, adaxially green, ovate or narrowly so, 2.5-5 × 1-3.5 cm. papery, abaxially densely 9-14-rayed stellate hairy, indumentum continuous, hairs usually with long central rays, adaxially 4-6-rayed stellate hairy, veins in 4-6 pairs, base rounded or broadly cuneate, margin serrulate, apex obtuse or subacute. Cymes 2-4 cm, 9-25-flowered; pedicels 2-2.5 mm. Calyx tube ca. 3 × 2.5 mm, gray-yellow stellate hairy; lobes ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 1-2 cm, apex acute. Petals induplicate, white, oblong or elliptic, 6-8 × 3-4 mm, apex obtuse. Outer stamens ca. 5 mm; filaments unequally 2-dentate at apex, teeth exceeding anthers; anthers stalked, globose. Inner stamens ca. 2.5 mm; filaments unequally 2- or 3-lobed at apex; anthers borne near apex of filaments abaxially, stalked. Styles 3 or 4, ca. 7 mm. Capsule hemispheric, 3.5-4 mm, with persistent, erect calyx lobes. Fl. Jun, fr. Aug. 2n = 26*.

Himalaya (Kashmir to Bhutan).

Distribution: N.W. Himalayas, Kashmir, Nepal & N. China; from 1000-3000m alt. s.m. Often found in open grassy fields, on banks and sunny hillsides.

SW Sichuan.(Muli Zang Zu Zizhixian), S Xizang, NW Yunnan [Bhutan, Kashmir, Nepal, Sikkim].

1700-3200 m

Fl. Per. April-May.

Thickets, mountain slopes; 2000-3000 m.

Deutzia brunoniana Wallich ex G. Don; D. staminea var. brunoniana (Wallich ex G. Don) J. D. Hooker & Thomson; D. staminea var. sikkimensis C. K. Schneider.