Hydrangea strigosa Rehder

Shrubs 1-3 m tall. Branchlets gray-brown, terete or obscurely 4-angled, densely strigose; bark usually peeled off into fragments. Petiole 1-7 cm, strigose; leaf blade abaxially sometimes purplish red to reddish when fresh but gray-brown to gray-green when dry, adaxially black-brown, oblong, ovate-lanceolate, or obovate-oblanceolate, 8-28 × 2-10 cm, papery, abaxially densely gray-brown glandular granular and gray-white strigose, adaxially sparsely strigose to subglabrous, secondary veins 7-10 on both sides of midvein, abaxially prominent, base obtuse, cuneate, or rounded, margin serrulate, apex acuminate. Inflorescences corymbose cymes, to 28 cm wide, apex slightly arcuate; branches spreading, gray-white strigose. Sterile flowers with sepals 4 or 5, white to purplish red, broadly ovate, broadly elliptic, suborbicular, or broadly orbicular, margin entire to denticulate. Fertile flowers with calyx tube campanulate, ca. 2 mm; teeth triangular, ca. 0.5 mm. Petals purplish red, oblong-ovate, 2-2.5 mm. Stamens 10, unequal, 3-6 mm; anthers oblong, ca. 0.5 mm. Ovary inferior. Styles 2, erect to recurved, slightly clavate, ca. 2 mm in fruit. Capsule urn-shaped, 3-3.5 mm in diam., apex truncate. Seeds brown, broadly ellipsoid, 0.3-0.5 mm, winged at both ends; wings 0.2-0.3 mm; seed coat striate veined. Fl. Jul-Aug, fr. Oct-Dec.

NW Guizhou, W Hubei, NW Hunan, S Shaanxi, Sichuan.

* Dense to sparse forests or thickets in valleys, trailsides on mountain slopes; 500-1800 m.

Hydrangea aspera D. Don var. angustifolia Hemsley; H. aspera var. macrophylla Hemsley; H. aspera var. sinica Diels; H. aspera subsp. strigosa (Rehder) E. M. McClintock; H. strigosa var. angustifolia (Hemsley) Rehder; H. strigosa var. macrophylla (Hemsley) Rehder; H. strigosa var. purpurea C. C. Yang; H. strigosa var. sinica (Diels) Rehder; H. strigosa f. sterilis Rehder.

Hydrangea strigosa (lat. Hydrangea strigosa) — hortenziyakimilər fəsiləsinin hortenziya cinsinə aid bitki növü.

Hydrangea strigosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Hydrangeaceae. It is native to China.

Hydrangea strigosa là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Tú cầu. Loài này được Rehder mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1911.

蜡莲绣球（学名：Hydrangea strigosa）为绣球花科绣球属下的一个种。