小花杜英 xiao hua du ying

Trees ca. 7 m tall. Branchlets terete, with numerous lenticels, densely pubescent. Petiole 1-2 cm, densely gray pubescent; leaf blade ovate-oblong or oblong, 8-13 × 3-4.5 cm, papery, abaxially densely gray puberulent, adaxially sparsely pilose, more densely so on veins, lateral veins 7-9 per side, base cuneate, margin sparsely serrate, apex acuminate. Raceme multi-flowered, ca. 7 cm; peduncle densely gray puberulent. Flowers bisexual. Sepals 5, lanceolate, ca. 3 mm, both surfaces pilose. Petals 4, 5-6 mm, glabrous, margin ciliate in lower 1/2, laciniate; segments 14-18. Stamens 15; anthers not awned at apices. Disk densely tomentose, 5-lobed. Ovary 3-loculed, densely tomentose; style glabrous. Fruit unknown. Fl. Jun-Jul, fr. unknown.

● Forests; ca. 600 m. Guangdong.