伞叶秋海棠(原变种) san ye qiu hai tang (yuan bian zhong)

Rhizome long creeping, 5-8 mm in diam.; internodes 2-4 cm. Leaves peltate; stipules lanceolate, narrowly ovate or elliptic, 1.5-2 × 0.7-1.5 cm; petiole 6-40 cm, villous to sparsely villous; blade abaxially pale green, adaxially deep green or brown-green, pale green on veins, suborbicular or broadly ovate, 6-23 × 4-16 cm, herbaceous, abaxially hispid-pilose on veins, adaxially sparsely hispid, base rounded, slightly oblique, margin remotely and shallowly unequally serrate or undulate, apex acuminate to caudate. Inflorescences axillary; peduncle 25-30 cm, very sparsely retrorse-villous; flowers pink; bracts oblong to ovate, 10-15 × 6-7 mm, margin indistinctly and shallowly denticulate, apex obtuse. Staminate flowers: pedicel 1.5-2 cm, glandular villous; tepals 4, outer 2 broadly ovate, 1.6-1.9 × 1.4-1.7 cm, outside sparsely villous, base subrounded, apex rounded, inner 2 narrow, elliptic, 7-8 × ca. 4 mm, apex obtuse; stamens numerous; filaments ca. 1.3 cm; anthers obovoid-oblong, 1.2-2 cm, apex subtruncate. Pistillate flowers: pedicel 3-4 cm, glandular villous; outer 2 tepals 1.5-1.8 × 1.6-2 cm, inner tepal ca. 8 mm; ovary ca. 10 × 8 mm, sparsely hirsute-villous. Capsule nodding, 1.4-1.6 cm, 3-winged. Fl. Oct-Nov. 2n = 30*.

● Forest understories, valleys, on limestone; ca. 200 m. Guangxi (Long’an).