宁明秋海棠(原变种) ning ming qiu hai tang (yuan bian zhong)

Stipules serrulate at margin, ciliate or ciliolate; leaf blade broadly ovate to suborbicular, 5.5-19 × 5-13 cm, apex acuminate, shortly acuminate, or acute. Staminate flowers: pedicel 7-20 mm, glabrous; tepals 4, outer 2 pinkish or white, 1.2-2.5 × 1.2-1.9 cm, inner 2 tepals oblanceolate or narrowly obovate, 8-18 × 3-5 mm. Pistillate flowers: outer tepals 10-14 × 8-14 mm, caducous or nearly so; styles 3, fused in lower 1/4-1/2. Capsule 9-10 × 4-6 mm, stipe 6-20 mm. Fl. Aug-Dec, fr. Oct-Jan. 2n = 30*.

● Broad-leaved forests on limestone hills; 100-400 m. Guangxi (Chongzuo, Longzhou, Ningming).