宽萼溲疏 kuan e sou shu

Shrubs 2-3 m tall. Flowering branchlets brown, 4-7 cm, angular, ca. 4-leaved. Petiole 3-5 mm; leaf blade abaxially grayish green, ovate-lanceolate or elliptic-ovate, 4.5-7 × 1.7-2.5 cm, abaxially densely 9-13-rayed stellate hairy, indumentum continuous, hairs on young leaf blade with central rays, adaxially 4- or 5-rayed stellate hairy, veins in 4 or 5 pairs, base rounded or broadly cuneate, margin serrulate, apex acuminate; leaf blade on proximal branchlets ovate, small, apex acute. Cymes or paniculate cymes ovate or pyramidal, 3-5 × 3-6 cm, 9-15-flowered; pedicels 5-10 mm. Calyx tube broadly cupular, 3.5-4 × 4-4.5 mm, densely 16-18-rayed stellate hairy; lobes broadly ovate or deltoid, ca. 1.5 × 1.5 mm. Petals induplicate, pink, elliptic, ca. 1.3 cm × 7 mm. Outer stamens 6-8 mm; filaments 2-dentate at apex; anthers stalked, globose. Inner stamens shorter than outer ones; filaments unequally 2- or 3-lobed at apex; anthers borne near apex of filaments abaxially. Styles 4(or 5), 9-10 mm. Capsule hemispheric, ca. 4 mm in diam., with persistent, erect calyx lobes. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Jun-Aug.

Coniferous forests, thickets, valleys; 1500-2000 m. Xizang [India].