建宁金腰 jian ning jin yao

Herbs 11.5-12.5 cm tall. Sterile branches absent. Stems distally branched, brown crisped villous. Cauline leaves 2 or 3, alternate; petiole 1-1.2 cm, brown crisped villous; leaf blade subreniform, 0.6-0.8 × 0.7-1.3 cm, both surfaces and margin brown pilose, base cordate, margin ca. 9-crenate (teeth retuse and 1-verrucose at apex), apex obtuse. Cyme remotely flowered; branches glabrous; bracteal leaves with petiole 0.8-3 mm, brown glandular pilose at axil, elsewhere glabrous, leaf blade subreniform to broadly suborbicular, 2.5-5.5 × 3-8 mm, both surfaces glabrous, base subcordate to rounded-truncate, margin 5-7-crenate, teeth sparsely brown ciliate at margin, 1-verrucose at apex. Flowers yellow-green, ca. 5 mm in diam. Sepals spreading, broadly ovate to broadly orbicular, 1.3-1.7 × 1.9-2.3 mm, apex obtuse. Stamens 8; filaments ca. 0.4 mm. Ovary subinferior; styles ca. 0.3 mm. Disc 8-lobed, surrounded by brown papillae. Fl. Jun.

* Shaded places at riversides; ca. 700 m. W Fujian (Jianning Xian), ?Zhejiang.