小花秋海棠 xiao hua qiu hai tang

Herbs, tuberous, probably deciduous, 7-11 cm tall. Stem erect, glabrous. Leaves cauline; stipules caducous; petiole 1-1.8 cm, glabrous; blade broadly ovate or suborbicular, asymmetric, 1-2.9 × 0.9-3.2 cm, glabrous, venation palmate, 5-veined, base cordate, margin shallowly crenate, apex rounded or acute. Inflorescences terminal and axillary; bracts caducous, broadly ovate, ca. 6 × 6 mm, herbaceous, glabrous, margin dentate. Staminate flowers: pedicel 5-10 mm; tepals 4, outer 2 suborbicular, 3.5-4 × 3.5-4 mm; stamens 7-9; filaments fused to 2/3; anthers obovoid, ca. 1 mm. Pistillate flowers: tepals 4, outer 2 suborbicular, 3.5-4 × 3.5-4 mm, inner 2 oblong, ca. 3 × 1.2 mm; ovary oblong, glabrous, 2-loculed; placentae axile, bilamellate; styles 2, entirely fused; stigmas 2-cleft, spiraled. Capsule pendulous, oblong, unequally 3-winged; abaxial wing oblate-triangular, 2-3 mm; lateral wings smaller. Fl. Sep.

● Limestone rocks; ca. 1000 m. Yunnan (Yiwu).