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The Wild Flowers of Mountain Subtropical Forest Region

Mussaenda decipiens Evergreen shrub of rubiaceae. 1 to 2 m tall or taller. Elliptic leaf. Terminal conpound cymes, three or four times divided, 10 cm in diameter. Some flowers have white foliose calyx. Succulent corolla, yellow, 1.8 cm long tube. Flowering: Aug. Warm, moist and shade tendency. Tibetan endemic. Medog, 800 to 1700 m, evergreen broadlleaved forest, forestedge thicket.