拟红紫珠 ni hong zi zhu

Shrubs ca. 1 m tall; branchlets, petioles, and cymes gray-brown stellate tomentose. Petiole 3-5 mm; leaf blade narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, 3-5.5 X 1.5-2 cm, yellow glandular, abaxially stellate tomentose along veins, adaxially sparsely pilose, base cuneate to broadly cuneate, margin serrate, apex acuminate. Cymes ca. 1.5 cm across; peduncle 8-10 mm; bracts small. Calyx ca. 1 mm, minutely 4-dentate, with single hairs, yellow glandular. Corolla pink, ca. 2 mm, puberulent; lobes 4, oblong. Stamens slightly exserted. Ovary yellow glandular. Fruit ca. 2 mm in diam. Fl. late spring to summer.

* Mountain slopes; 400-500 m. Guangdong.