J. South China Agr. Univ. 1996. 17(1): 59.
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Shrub to 50cm. Body of the plant sparsely scaly. Lower branches creeping, curved, the upper spreading, grey-brown. Leaves in pseudowhorls of 3–5 near the apices of the branches. Blade 20–40 x 10–20mm, elliptic to narrowly obovate or elliptic-obovate; apex bluntly acute; margin entire but distinctly revolute; base narrowed, often decurrent; shiny dark-green above, paler below. Mid-vein and lateral veins impressed above when dry, the laterals quickly becoming obscure beneath. Petiole 3–5mm, flattened. Flower buds rounded-ovate, bracts ovate or ovate-spathulate, ciliate on the margins. Inflorescence a terminal umbel with 4–7 flowers. Pedicels 7–12mm. Flowers yellow, the calyx small; lobes reflexed, obtuse-crenulate. Corolla 8–10 x c.12mm, shortly campanulate; tube 4–5 x 3–4mm, with white hairs within the upper part; lobes 5 x 4mm, rounded-ovate; apex broadly rounded. Stamens 6mm; filaments cylindrical above, flattened below the middle, glabrous at the base, white hairy below the middle. Ovary 3mm, ovate-rounded; style shorter than the stamens, c.3mm, club-shaped, downwardly curved; stigma flattened rounded, to 5-lobed. Fruit 10–13 x 6mm, elongate-ellipsoid.
China, Guangdong, Xinyi, Datianding. Epiphytic.
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