Sauropus tsiangii P. T. Li

Shrubs ca. 1 m tall, erect, monoecious, glabrous throughout; stem terete; branchlets angular. Stipules caducous; petiole 3-4 mm; leaf blade ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 6.5-9.5 × 3.5-4.5 cm, papery, base rounded, apex caudate-acuminate; venation pinnate, midrib elevated on both surfaces, lateral veins 6 or 7 pairs, flattened adaxially, elevated abaxially. Inflorescence axillary, usually 3-flowered. Male flowers: pedicels filamentous, 5-8 mm; sepals 6, oblong-lanceolate, ca. 2 mm; disk segments 6, semiorbicular, shorter and opposite to sepals; stamens 3; filaments connate for less than 1/2 length; anthers oblong. Female flowers: sepals 6, spatulate, ca. 5 mm, apex obtuse; ovary depressed-triangular, ca. 2 mm in diam., 3-locular; styles 3, bifid at apex, arms recurved. Fruit not seen. Fl. May-Sep.

SW Guangxi (Longzhou).

● Limestone forests; 500-800 m.