Wendlandia budleioides - Grand Wendlandia

Grand Wendlandia is a tree, 3-4 m tall; branches brown, fissured, bristly to becoming hairless. Flowers are borne in ovoid panicles, 9-17 × 5-15 cm, densely brown hairy; bracts lanceshaped, about 5 mm. Flowers are stalkless, white, funnel-shaped, hairless outside; tube about 4 mm, white hairy inside; petals triangular, 1-1.2 mm. Anthers elliptic, about 0.8 mm, nearly stalkless, partially protruding. Stigma 2-lobed. Sepal-cup is densely brown hirtellous; hypanthium portion about 1 mm; limb deeply lobed; sepals lanceshaped, 0.5-1 mm. Leaves are opposite; leaf-stalk 0.5-1.5 cm, bristly; blade drying leathery or thickly papery, elliptic, elliptic-oblong, or obovate-oblong, 5-17 x 2.5-7 cm, above hairless or sparsely bristly, below hairless or sparsely velvet-hairy, base wedge-shaped or pointed, tip pointed or shortly tapering; secondary veins 8-12 pairs; stipules generally persistent, triangular to ovate, 9-12 mm, bristly, tip erect to spreading, strap-shaped, 5-7 mm, often longitudinally folded. Capsules are almost spherical, about 2 mm in diameter, velvet-hairy. Flowering: April-August. Grand Wendlandia is found in evergreen forests, at altitudes of 700-1300 m, in NE India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Nepal, China.