黄鞘蕊花 huang qiao rui hua

Shrubs ca. 50 cm tall. Stem basally gray, glabrous, tuberculate-lenticellate, apex brown and densely yellow-brown tomentose. Petiole 4-10 mm; leaf blade narrowly ovate, 3-5 × 1.5-2.4 cm, densely villous, base rounded, margin crenate, apex short acuminate. Panicles terminal and axillary; floral leaves reduced, very short petiolate; bracts ovate, ca. 4 × 2 mm, short caudate, sparsely pubescent, glandular, ciliate. Pedicel 1-2 mm. Calyx campanulate, ca. 2.5 mm in flower, to 5 mm in fruit, yellow-brown tomentose, puberulent inside upper lip; limb 2-lipped, 3-lobed, middle tooth of upper lip broadly ovate; lateral teeth ovate, ca. 1/2 as long as middle tooth; lower teeth lanceolate, nearly as long as lateral lobes. Corolla yellow, ca. 1 cm, sparsely pubescent; tube abruptly recurved beyond calyx, throat to 2 mm wide; upper lip equally 4-lobed, lower lip elliptic. Nutlets brown, ovoid. Fl. Sep.

* Limestone mountains; ca. 1400 m. Yunnan.