云南醉鱼草 yun nan zui yu cao

Shrubs 0.5--4 m tall. Branchlets nearly 4-angled, stellate pubescent, glabrescent. Leaves subsessile to petiole 5 mm; leaf blade elliptic, ovate, or narrowly ovate, 2--12 X 1--4.5 cm, abaxially densely stellate tomentose, adaxially glabrous or with scattered stellate hairs, base cuneate to decurrent, margin subentire to coarsely dentate-serrate, apex acuminate, lateral veins 4--6 pairs. Inflorescences terminal, densely spicate, 2--6 X 1.5--2 cm. Flowers sessile. Calyx campanulate, 4--6 mm, outside with dense stellate hairs and glandular hairs, inside often glabrous; lobes triangular, 1--2 mm. Corolla lilac, 1--1.2 cm; tube 8--9.5 mm, outside with dense stellate hairs and glandular hairs, inside stellate pilose and with some glandular hairs except for base; lobes oblong, 2--2.5 X ca. 1.5 mm. Stamens inserted near base of corolla tube; anthers ovate. Ovary ovoid, 2--3 X ca. 2 mm, stellate tomentose except for lower third; stigma subcapitate. Capsules ellipsoid, 4--5 X 2.3--3 mm, stellate pubescent. Seeds obliquely ovoid to ellipsoid, unwinged. Fl. Jun-Oct.

* Forest edges, thickets in mountains; 1000--2500 m. Yunnan.