顺宁红丝线 shun ning hong si xian

Shrubs 1.5-2.5 m tall. Branchlets sparsely pubescent, glabrescent. Leaves unequal paired; petiole of major leaf 0.5-2 cm, that of minor leaf 0.2-1 cm; blade of major leaf oblong, 6-17 × 2.8-7.4 cm, ciliate, with sparse many-celled hairs adaxially, sparsely pubescent abaxially along veins; blade of minor leaf ovate, 2-7.5 × 1.5-5.5 cm. Inflorescences 4-6-flowered fascicles in leaf axils. Pedicel 5-10 mm, sparsely pubescent, glabrescent. Calyx cup-shaped; teeth 10, slightly unequal, 2-3 mm, often spreading, glabrescent. Corolla purple-blue, ca. 1.5 cm in diam., 5-parted; lobes lanceolate, 7 × 1.5-2 mm. Filaments ca. 0.4 mm; anthers oblong, 3-3.5 mm, sparsely white pubescent. Fruit not seen. Fl. Jul.

* Thickets; ca. 2200 m. Yunnan (Shunning Xian).