光叶秋海棠 guang ye qiu hai tang

Herbs, deciduous. Tubers globose, 5-8(-20) mm in diam. Leaves usually solitary, basal; stipules caducous, triangular-ovate, membranous, margin ciliate, apex acuminate; petiole 5.5-14.5 cm, glabrous; blade oblong-ovate, asymmetric, 8-16.2 × 4-11 cm, succulent, glabrous, venation palmate, base oblique, shallowly cordate, margin remotely serrulate; apex acuminate. Inflorescence terminal, 8-13 cm tall, glabrous; bracts caducous, lanceolate, 3-5 mm, membranous. Staminate flowers: pedicel 8-10 mm; tepals 2, pink, suborbicular, ca. 1 × 1 mm; stamens numerous; filaments free, ca. 0.8 mm; anthers oblong, ca. 1 mm, apex emarginate. Pistillate flowers: pedicel 9-10 mm; tepals 2, pink, broadly ovate or suborbicular, ca. 8 × 6 mm; ovary 3-loculed; placentae axile, undivided; styles 3, free; stigmas U-shaped. Capsule immature, unequally 3-winged. Fl. Dec.

● On rocks in moist environments; ca. 1400 m. Yunnan (Pingbian).