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Description

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Shrubs evergreen, rarely small trees, 1–5 m tall, occasionally epiphytic, sparsely branched, glabrous. Twigs terete, slender, slightly flexuous; bud scales inconspicuous. Leaves scattered; petiole 1–2 mm, stout; leaf blade ovate-lanceolate, 9–19 × 2.5–5.5 cm, leathery, secondary veins 5–9, fine veins raised abaxially, impressed adaxially, base rounded to subcordate, margin slightly revolute or not, entire, basal glands absent, apex long acuminate or caudate. Inflorescences racemose, (3–)7–15 cm, many flowered; bracts caducous, ca. 1 mm. Pedicel 0.6–1.5 cm. Hypanthium ca. 0.6 mm; calyx lobes triangular, ca. 1 mm. Corolla yellow-green, tinged with purple, campanulate, 6–7 mm; lobes reflexed, ovate-triangular, ca. 2 mm. Filaments 1.5–3 mm, densely pubescent; anthers ca. 4 mm, with 2 spreading spurs; tubules 1.5–2 × as long as thecae. Berry 10-pseudoloculed, ca. 6 mm in diam. Fl. Apr–May, fr. Jun–Nov.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
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Flora of China Vol. 14: 483 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Flora of China @ eFloras.org
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Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan
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Distribution

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W Guangxi, SE Yunnan.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
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Flora of China Vol. 14: 483 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Flora of China @ eFloras.org
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Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan
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eFloras.org
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Habitat

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Evergreen forests, sparse forests and thickets on calcareous mountains, occasionally epiphytic on trees; 1100–1800 m.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Flora of China Vol. 14: 483 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
source
Flora of China @ eFloras.org
editor
Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan
project
eFloras.org
original
visit source
partner site
eFloras