矮黄栌 ai huang lu

Shrubs 0.5-1.5 m tall. Petiole slender, 3-6 mm; leaf blade orbicular or ovate, 1-2 cm in diam., leathery, glabrous, glaucous, base rounded or broadly cuneate, margin entire, apex rounded, lateral veins and reticulate venation prominent abaxially. Inflorescence paniculate, terminal, much branched, glabrous. Pedicel slender, 6-8 mm, partly pilose; flowers ca. 3 mm in diam. Calyx purplish red, lobes ovate-triangular, ca. 1 mm, acute to obtuse apically, minutely pubescent with ciliate margins. Petals oblong or oblong-elliptic, 2-2.5 mm, glabrous with purplish red venation pattern. Stamens ca. 1.5 mm; filaments linear, ca. 0.9 mm; anthers ovate-oblong. Disk annular. Ovary oblique, subglobose, ca. 0.7 mm in diam., minutely pubescent; styles 3; stigma subcapitate. Drupe subreniform, 3-4 × 2.5-3 mm, compressed, minutely pubescent. Fl. Jul-Aug, fr. Sep-Oct.

● Hill and mountain thickets on rocky soils; 1500-2500 m. NW Yunnan.