Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Many-branched shrubs 1–4 m tall.

Stems:

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Opposite. Blades oblong–lanceolate to narrowly elliptic–lanceolate, 5–7 cm long, 1.2–1.6 cm wide. Base cuneate to attenuate. Surfaces glabrous, glandular punctate with translucent glands. Margins entire. Sessile and somewhat surrounding the stem. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers 2–3 in cymes terminating the upper stems, the cymes arranged in panicles, pedicels 10–20 mm long in fruit. Flowers bisexual (perfect). Sepals ovate to lanceolate, ca. 3 mm long, apex acute to obtuse. Petals yellow, spatulate, ca. 17–19 mm long, apex hooded. Stamens 12–36, in 3 clusters. Ovary superior; styles 3.

Fruit: Capsules coriaceous; ovoid; 3–lobed; apex truncate. Seeds numerous; pale reddish brown; elongate–cuneate; 1.4–1.6 mm long; reticulate.

Ploidy: 2n = 40

Habitat:

Elevation Range: 970–1,100 m.