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广西水锦树Wendlandia aberrans Cowan

广西水锦树Wendlandia aberrans Cowan

科名:茜草科 Rubiaceae

属名:水锦树属 Wendlandia

《中国植物志》第71(1)卷198页
  4. 广西水锦树(广西植物名录)图版48: 1-3
  Wendlandia aberrans How in Sunyatsenia 7 (1-2): 44, fig. 1. 1948; 中国高等植物图鉴4: 205, 图5823. 1975; W. C. Chen in Acta Phytotax. Sinica 21 (3): 283. 1983.
  灌木,高1-3米;枝圆柱形,黄褐色,小枝密被紧贴的铁锈色硬毛。叶纸质,长圆状椭圆形或卵状椭圆形,长5-16厘米,宽2-5.8厘米,顶端短尾状渐尖或短尖,基部楔尖或短尖,干时赤黄色,上面散生紧贴的短硬毛,在中脉上较密,下面散生短硬毛,在脉上较密;中脉在上面平坦,在下面凸起;侧脉6-12对,纤细,弯,在下面明显;叶柄长3-10毫米,有黄褐色小硬毛;托叶三角形,顶端长尖,长3-5毫米,有黄褐色小硬毛,后渐无毛,脱落。圆锥状聚伞花序顶生,长5-10厘米,宽3-8厘米,有紧贴的铁锈色硬毛;苞片叶状或丝状,有短柔毛;小苞片丝状,有短柔毛;花梗短,有柔毛;花萼被灰白色硬毛,长1.5-2.5毫米,萼管近球形,裂片披针形,稍短于萼管;花冠漏斗形,白带红色,向上稍扩大,长1-1.3厘米,外面无毛,内面中部有白色疏长柔毛,裂片长圆状卵形,顶端钝或微缺,长1.5-2毫米;花药线状长圆形,长1-1.7毫米;花柱纤细,与花冠近等长,无毛,柱头2裂,稍伸出。果未见。花期4-12月。
  产于广西那坡;生于海拔900-1200米的山坡林中。模式标本采自广西那坡县德窝乡冷头山。

《Flora of China》 Vol. 19 (2011)
Wendlandia aberrans  F. C. How Sunyatsenia. 7(1-2): 44. 1948.
广西水锦树   guang xi shui jin shu
Shrubs, 1-3 m tall; branches terete, yellowish brown, densely adpressed ferruginous hirsute. Leaves opposite; petiole 3-10 mm, appressed yellowish brown pubescent; blade drying papery and reddish yellow, oblong-elliptic or ovate-elliptic, 5-16 × 2-5.8 cm, adaxially adpressed puberulent with pubescence denser along midrib, abaxially sparsely puberulent with pubescence denser along principal veins, base cuneate or acute, apex shortly caudate-acuminate or acute; secondary veins 6-12 pairs; stipules late deciduous to persistent, triangular, 3-5 mm, yellowish brown pubescent becoming glabrescent, cuspidate. Inflorescences congested-paniculate, narrowly pyramidal in outline, 5-10 × 3-8 cm, appressed ferruginous pubescent, tripartite and sessile or pedunculate; bracts leaflike or filiform. Flowers subsessile to shortly pedicellate. Calyx grayish white pilosulous or hirtellous; hypanthium portion subglobose, 0.8-1.2 mm; limb lobed nearly to base; lobes lanceolate to triangular, 0.7-1.2 mm. Corolla reddish white, slenderly funnelform, glabrous outside; tube 8.5-11 mm, sparsely white villous at middle inside; lobes oblong-ovate, 1.5-2 mm. Anthers linear-oblong, 1-1.7 mm, subsessile, partially exserted. Stigma 2-lobed, ca. 0.8 mm. Capsules not seen. Fl. Apr-Dec.
● Forests on hill slopes; 900-1200 m. Guangxi (Napo).
W. C. Chen’s key (in FRPS 71(1): 192. 1999) described the leaves of this species as hispidulous on both surfaces, but this conflicts with the protologue and Chen’s species description.W. C. Chen’s key (in FRPS 71(1): 192. 1999) described the leaves of this species as hispidulous on both surfaces, but this conflicts with the protologue and Chen’s species description.

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