Photinia blinii (Lév.) Rehd.

Shrubs deciduous. Branchlets purplish red when young, purplish brown when old, densely tomentose when young, glabrous when old, with scattered small lenticels. Petiole very short or nearly absent, densely yellow tomentose; leaf blade lanceolate, 3–4 × 0.8–1 cm, veins inconspicuous, midvein somewhat raised abaxially and slightly impressed adaxially, abaxially densely yellow tomentose, adaxially initially tomentose, gradually glabrescent, base cuneate and gradually attenuate, margin entire or rarely inconspicuously crenulate, apex ± obtuse or ± acute. Inflorescences and flowers not seen. Infructescences terminal, corymbose, 1.8–2 cm, compact; rachis and pedicels purplish brown, short, glabrous, with distinct lenticels. Stamens ca. 20. Styles 3. Fruit ovoid-globose, 6–7 mm, ovary 3-loculed; sepals incurved, triangular, 1–1.5 mm. Fl. Aug–Sep, fr. Oct.

Guizhou.

River beds; ca. 600 m.

Cotoneaster blinii H. Léveillé, Cat. Pl. Yunnan 229. 1917.