龙陵新木姜子 long ling xin mu jiang zi

Small trees, ca. 5 m tall. Young branchlets densely yellow-brown puberulent and becoming glabrous. Leaves clustered toward apex of branchlet; petiole 1-2.2 cm, densely puberulent; leaf blade elliptic or elliptic-oblong, 4.5-9 × 1.7-3.5 cm, densely appressed villous abaxially, glabrous or along midrib slightly puberulent adaxially, triplinerved, lateral veins 4 pairs, lowermost pair arising 2-5 mm from base, base acute, apex abruptly acuminate with acumen. Umbels 1-3-fascicled in leaf axils, sessile, male umbel 5-flowered. Pedicel ca. 4 mm. Perianth segment 4, broadly ovate. Male flowers: fertile stamens 6; filaments pilose, of 3rd whorls each with 2 stipitate adnate cordate-reniform glands at base; rudimentary pistil densely pilose. Fruit ovoid, ca. 10 × 8 mm, glabrous; fruiting pedicel 0.8-1 cm, thickened at apex. Fl. Dec, fr. Sep.

● Evergreen broad-leaved forests on mountain slopes; 1700-2000 m. W Yunnan.