Dicliptera bupleuroides - Thorowax Foldwing

Thorowax Foldwing is a herb up to 50 cm tall. It is named bupleuroides due to its resemblance to the plants bupleurium, commonly called Thorowax. Stems are grooved, velvet-hairy. Leaf-stalks are 0.5-1 cm long. Leaves are ovate, 3.5-7 × 1.8-2.8 cm, hairless or with 2-celled trichomes, secondary veins 4 or 5 on each side of midvein, base wedge-shaped, margin nearly entire, tip long-pointed. Flowers are born in nearly stalkless or shortly-stalked many-flowered cymes in leaf axils or sometimes at branch ends. Bracts linear to oblong to inverted-lanceshaped, tipped with a short, sharp point, prominently 3-veined, margins fringed with hairs, one larger than other, 8-14 mm. Sepal is about 6 mm, minutely velvet-hairy, sepals pale-margined, tapering to a fine point from a broadish base. Flowers are pink with white tube (rarely entirely white), 1.5-2.2 cm, petals longer than tube. Capsule is club-shaped, velvet-hairy, 7-8 mm. Thorowax Foldwing is found in Afghanistan, Himalayas, from Kashmir to Bhutan, other parts of India, Thailand, Indo-China and W. China, at altitudes of 500-2000 m. Flowering: November-June.