Urceola micrantha (wall. ex G.don) D.j.middleton

Branches pale lenticellate; branchlets minutely puberulent, rarely glabrous. Leaves papery to subcoriaceous; petiole 0.6-2 cm long; blade elliptic to ovate, 2.8-18 by 1.1-5.7 cm, 1.7-3.7 times as long as wide, apex acuminate, base cuneate to rounded, 3-7 pairs of secondary veins, strongly ascending, tertiary venation weakly scalariform and reticulate, glabrous or with a puberulent petiole, usually with hairs in the axils of the secondary veins with the midrib, occasionally completely glabrous, sometimes punctate beneath. Inflorescence of axillary and terminal cymes, usually forming a panicle; puberulent, rarely glabrous, 5.8-19.5 cm long; pedicels 0.6-6.2 mm long. Sepals ovate, sometimes reflexed, 0.5-1 by 0.4-0.8 mm, 0.9-2 times as long as wide, apex abruptly acuminate, obtuse or apiculate, puberulent or glabrous, ciliate, with colleters only at edges of sepals at base inside. Corolla white or greenish white; lobes dextrorse; bud ovoid, open corolla campanulate; tube 0.7-1.5 mm long, (0.8-)1-2.5 times as long as lobes; lobes falcate to the right, 0.6-1.2 mm long; glabrous outside, rarely sparsely pubescent on upper parts, pubescent inside. Stamens inserted a 0.2-0.5 mm from corolla base which is 0.1-0.4 of tube length; filament 0.1-0.5 mm long; anthers 0.9-1.3 by 0.3-0.4 mm, 2.3-3.3 times as long as wide. Disk 5-crenate; 0.2-0.4 mm long. Ovaries 0.3-0.7 mm long; style and style head 0.6-0.9 mm long. Fruit not stipitate, linear, mostly divergent, lenticellate, glabrous, 6.7-25 by 0.3-1 cm. Seeds: grain 7.3-18 by 2.2-3.9 mm; coma 2.8-6 cm long.

Valleys, stream edges and shrub thickets. Mixed forests, brushwoods at elevations from 300-1000 metres.

The young leaves are used as a flavouring or spice.

Can be grown by seedlings.