Shrubs 0.5-3 m tall; stems reddish; branchlets densely or sparsely strigose, upper shoots rarely leafless but with some glomerules at nodes. Leaves alternate; stipules lanceolate, 3-5 mm; petiole (1-)2.6-11(-17) cm; leaf blade lanceolate to rhombic-ovate, (1-)3-19 × (0.9-)1.5-9 cm, papery, secondary veins 2 apical pairs, abaxial surface strigose or densely appressed pubescent, adaxial surface scabrous, sparsely pubescent, base rounded or cuneate, margin 8-14(-19)-dentate, apex acute or acuminate. Glomerules often unisexual on distal nodes, bisexual on proximal nodes, mostly axillary but sometimes forming almost leafless lateral spikes, reddish, 3-7 mm in diam.; bracts narrowly ovate, 2-4 mm. Male flowers: perianth lobes 4, connate to middle, strigose, apex acute. Female flowers: perianth tube ellipsoid or rhomboid, 0.8-1.2 mm, to 2 mm in fruit, pubescent, inconspicuously ribbed, 3-or 4-toothed. Achenes gray-yellow, ovoid, slightly compressed, 1-1.6 mm. Fl. Apr-Jul, fr. Jul-Aug.
More
A shrub. It grows to 3 m high. It has a reddish stem. The leaves have stalks. They are alternate. The leaves are 5-15 cm long by 1-5 cm wide. They taper to the tip and have teeth around the edge. They are white and hairy underneath. The base is rounded or wedge shaped. The flowers are yellow. They are in clusters mostly in the axils of leaves. The fruit is dry and oblong. It is flattened.
Warm evergreen broad-leaved forests, thickets, edges of woods, dry valleys, roadsides at elevations of 300-2,300 metres in southern China. Often found in patches of abandoned cultivation at elevations up to 1,500 metres in India.
More
A tropical plant. In Nepal plants grow between 900-3000 m altitude. They are common on rocky ground. In Sichuan and Yunnan.
Home