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Stachyurus yunnanensis Franch.

Modern name

Stachyurus yunnanensis Franch.

A shrub to about 15 ft high in the wild. Leaves leathery, persisting through the winter, ovate-oblong to ovate-lanceolate, up to 5 in. long and 1[5/8] in. wide, acuminate to caudate at the apex, cuneate at the base, finely and sharply serrate, glabrous on both sides. Inflorescence 2[3/8] to 4 in. long, with about twenty flowers on peduncles up to [3/8] in. long, with leaves persisting at the base. Flowers yellow, with obovate petals. Style exserted.

A native of southern and western China. It is of recent introduction and nothing is yet known of its value for gardens. Also now probably in cultivation is the closely related S. obovatus (Rehd.) Hand.-Mazz (S. yunnanensis var. obovatus Rehd.) with smaller, obovate or lyre-shaped leaves and very short, few-flowered inflorescences.


Genus

Stachyurus

Other species in the genus