四川紫茎 si chuan zi jing

Hartia sichuanensis S. Z. Yan, Acta Phytotax. Sin. 19: 469. 1981.

Shrubs or small trees, evergreen. Current year branchlets pubescent. Petiole 1-1.5 cm, sparsely pubescent or glabrescent, wings ca. 2 mm wide; leaf blade elliptic to obovate-elliptic, 7.5-10 × 3-4.5 cm, leathery, abaxially appressed pubescent, adaxially glabrous, secondary veins 7-10 on each side of midvein, base broadly cuneate to subrounded, margin serrulate, apex abruptly acute to slightly obtuse. Flowers not seen. Capsule subglobose, ca. 9 × 10 mm, longitudinally 5-grooved, glabrous, persistent style ca. 1.5 cm; pedicel 5-7 mm, pubescent; persistent bracteoles 2, linear-lanceolate, ca. 5 × 1 mm, outside densely pubescent, inside subglabrous, margin ciliolate; persistent sepals 5, suborbicular, 7-8 mm, outside densely appressed pubescent, inside sericeous, margin ciliolate, apex rounded. Fr. Sep-Oct.

● Thickets; ca. 600 m. Sichuan (Pingshan).