Deutzia schneideriana Rehder

Shrubs 1-2 m tall. Flowering branchlets purplish red, 8-12 cm, 4-6-leaved, sparsely stellate hairy. Petiole 3-4 mm; leaf blade abaxially grayishovate-obovate or elliptic-ovate, 3.5-7 × 1.5-3 cm, papery, abaxially 12-15-rayed stellate hairy, indumentum discontinuous, hairs along veins with central rays, adaxially sparsely 5- or 6-rayed stellate hairy, veins in 4-6 pairs, base rounded or broadly cuneate, margin serrulate, apex acute or abruptly acuminate. Cymose panicles 3-15 × 3-4 cm; pedicels 3-8 mm. Calyx tube ca. 3 × 4 mm, densely greenish gray stellate hairy; lobes deltoid, ca. 1 × 1 mm. Petals induplicate, white, oblong, 1-1.2 cm × 4-5 mm, apex acute. Outer stamens 8-10 mm; filaments 2-dentate at apex, teeth not reaching anthers; anthers borne between filament teeth, stalked, oblong. Inner anthers borne between filament teeth or near middle of filaments abaxially. Styles 3, slender, longer than stamens. Capsule grayish brown, hemispheric, 5-7 mm in diam., stellate hairy. Fl. May-Jun, fr. Aug-Oct.

Anhui, Gansu, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, ?Zhejiang.

* Thickets; 600-2000 m.

Deutzia schneideriana var. laxiflora Rehder.

Deutzia schneideriana (长江溲疏) is a flowering shrub in the family Hydrangeaceae native to Anhui, Gansu, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, and perhaps Zhejiang provinces in China. It grows 1–2 meters tall, with purplish red branchlets of 8–12 cm length.