短炳扁担杆 duan bing bian dan gan

Shrubs 0.5-1.5 m tall. Branchlets densely yellow-brown tomentose, two-year-old branches slightly coarsely tomentose. Petiole 1-4 mm, densely tomentose; leaf blade oblong-lanceolate or oblong, 3-9 × 2-3.5 cm, leathery, abaxially densely yellow-brown to gray-brown stellate tomentose, adaxially coarsely stellate hairy, fallen hairs leaving verrucose prominence, lateral basal veins 1/2 as long as blade or longer, lateral veins 3-4 pairs, base rounded, margin serrate, apex acute. Cymes solitary in axils, 3-flowered; peduncle 0.7-1 cm, tomentose. Pedicel 4-6 mm, tomentose. Bracts subulate, hairy, caducous. Sepals 5-7 × 2-2.5 mm, abaxially stellate hairy, adaxially glabrous. Petals 2-3 mm. Stamens 3-5 mm. Ovary villous; style 3-4 mm, glabrous; stigma swollen. Drupe 2-lobed, 1-1.2 cm, glossy, glabrous.

● Scrub, dry grassy slopes. SW Sichuan, N and SW Yunnan.