缙云瑞香 jin yun rui xiang

Shrubs evergreen, to 1.5 m tall. Branches sparsely pubescent. Leaves alternate, usually clustered at apices of branches; petiole 0.5-1 mm; leaf blade elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate, or obovate, 5-15 × 2-4 cm, thinly leathery or papery, both surfaces glabrous, base cuneate, margin slightly revolute, apex obtuse, acute, or caudate-acuminate, sometimes retuse; veins 6-10 pairs. Inflorescences terminal, several flowered; bracts caducous, lanceolate or oblong, ca. 6 × 1.8 mm, sparsely pubescent. Pedicel 1-1.5 mm, densely pubescent. Calyx purplish white; tube 6-8 mm, exterior densely pubescent; lobes 4, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 3-4 × 1.5-2.5 mm, apex obtuse or acute. Stamens 8, lower whorl inserted at middle of calyx tube, upper whorl in throat; filaments very short; anthers linear-oblong, ca. 1.4 mm. Disk annular, margin irregularly 4- or 5-lobed. Ovary ellipsoid, glabrous; style 0.7-1.2 mm, hairy or glabrous; stigma capitate. Drupe red, broadly ovoid. Fl. Aug-Sep, fr. Mar-Apr.

● Open forests on rocky slopes. Chongqing.