毛叶新木姜子 mao ye xin mu jiang zi

Small trees. Branchlets white or ferruginous velutinous. Leaves often 2 or 3 clustered at apex of branchlet; petiole ca. 6 mm, white or ferruginous velutinous; leaf blade elliptic or broadly obovate, 4.8-7.5(-15) × 1.8-3.5(-5.5) cm, ferruginous pubescent abaxially, more densely so along veins, glabrous adaxially, triplinerved, lateral veins 3 pairs, lowermost pair arising from near base, nearly vertical, midrib and lateral veins distinctly impressed adaxially. Umbels fascicled, many flowered; peduncle short. Pedicel 2-3 mm, densely yellow velutinous. Perianth segments 4, ovate-elliptic. Male flowers: fertile stamens 6; filaments glabrous, of 3rd whorls each with 2 stipitate ovoid glands at base; rudimentary pistil lacking. Female flowers: staminodes glabrous; ovary ovoid; style slender, glabrous. Fl. Nov-Dec.

● Mixed broad-leaved forests; 600-1400 m. Guangdong, Guangxi, SE Yunnan.