广东牡荆 guang dong mu jing

Shrubs 1-2 m tall. Branchlets sparsely pubescent to subglabrous; buds yellowish brown puberulent. Leaves 3-5-foliolate; petiole 1-3 cm; leaflets sub-sessile to very short petiolulate, elliptic-lanceolate, obovate-lanceolate, or obovate, base acuminate to cuneate, margin coarsely dentate with 1-5 teeth per side, apex acuminate, acute, or obtuse; central leaflet 1.5-4 X 1-2 cm. Panicles 10-20 cm. Calyx ca. 3 mm, teeth acuminate at maturity, both surfaces slightly pubescent to subglabrous. Corolla bluish purple, ca. 1 cm, both surfaces densely pubescent. Filaments pilose at base. Ovary apically with a few hairs. Fruiting calyx equal or longer than fruit. Fruit subglobose, ca. 3 mm in diam.

* Mountain slopes along roadsides; 400-600 m. Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Jiangxi.