云南山檨子 yun nan shan xian zi

Deciduous trees, ca. 5 m tall; branchlets grayish brown, glabrous, with large lenticels. Leaves not seen. Panicle terminal, 11-20 cm, glabrous, with numerous 2-6 cm branches; peduncle and rachis robust. Flower yellowish green, sessile. Calyx 5-parted, glabrous, lobes suborbicular, ca. 1.5 mm in diam. Petals 5, ovate, ca. 3 × 2 mm, revolute at anthesis. Stamens 10; filaments subulate, ca. 1.5 mm; anthers sagittate, ca. 0.8 mm. Ovary glabrous. Fruit not seen. Fl. Mar.

● Thickets; 1000-1100 m. S Yunnan (Jinghong).