甘肃荛花 gan su rao hua

Basionym: Daphne reginaldi-farreri Halda, Acta Mus. Richnov., Sect. Nat. 8: 115. 2001.

Shrubs evergreen, to 1 m tall. Bark gray, soft; stems many; branches slender, glabrous. Leaves opposite; petiole 2-5 mm; leaf blade dark glossy green abaxially, narrowly oblanceolate to broadly linear, (1.5-)2.5-4 × 0.4-0.8 cm, thickly papery, both surfaces hirsute, base attenuate, apex abruptly acuminate, mucronulate; lateral veins obscure. Inflorescences terminal and subterminal, erect, racemose, ± paniculate, 6-10-flowered; peduncle to ca. 2 cm. Calyx yellow; tube ca. 10 mm, exterior puberulous at base; lobes 4, unequal, ovate, ca. 2 × 1 mm, apex obtuse. Stamens 8, lower whorl inserted at middle of calyx tube, upper whorl in throat; filaments ca. 0.4 mm; anthers linear, ca. 1 mm. Disk scale 1, obovate, ca. 0.5 mm, margin crenate. Fruit not seen.

● S Gansu (Zhugqu).