Medinilla assamica (C. B. Clarke) C. Chen

Shrubs or scandent (scrambling) shrubs, 1-4 m tall. Branches 4-angled when young, later terete, glabrous. Leaves very shortly petiolate or sessile; leaf blade ovate, lanceolate-ovate, or elliptic, 10-21 × 3.8-11 cm, leathery, both surfaces minutely tuberculate or adaxially glabrous, abaxially sparsely strigose and furfuraceous, secondary veins 1 or 2 on each side of midvein, base oblique and cordate or rarely obtuse, margin entire or shallowly serrulate, apex acuminate. Inflorescences terminal, cymose paniculate, 15-30 cm. Pedicel 0.5-2 mm. Hypanthium cup-shaped, 3-4 mm, minutely tuberculate, margin slightly undulate. Calyx lobes inconspicuous. Petals 4, pink, broadly ovate, 3-4.5 × ca. 3.5 mm, basally slightly oblique, apex obtuse to subacute. Stamens 8, subequal; filaments ca. 3 mm; anthers lanceolate, ca. 4 mm; connective decurrent, inflated around base of anther and abaxially minutely spurred. Ovary ovoid, 4-celled, apex truncate and entire. Berry globular, 4.5-6 × 4-5 mm, apex truncate. Seeds shortly cuneate, small tuberculate. Fl. Apr-Jun, fr. Oct.

Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Xizang (Cona, Mêdog), Yunnan [India, Laos, Myanmar, N Thailand, Vietnam].

Sparse to dense forests, valleys, hillsides, streamsides, damp places, trailsides; 200-1300 m.

Anplectrum assamicum C. B. Clarke in J. D. Hooker, Fl. Brit. India 2: 546. 1879; Allomorphia subsessilis Craib; Diplectria assamica (C. B. Clarke) Kuntze; Medinilla spirei Guillaumin; Pseudodissochaeta assamica (C. B. Clarke) M. P. Nayar; P. subsessilis (Craib) M. P. Nayar.

Medinilla assamica là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Mua. Loài này được (C.B. Clarke) C. Chen mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1983.

顶花酸脚杆（学名：Medinilla assamica），为野牡丹科酸脚杆属下的一个种。