Cladogynos orientalis Zipp. ex Span.

Shrubs 0.5-2.5 m tall. Branchlets white stellate-tomentose. Stipules lanceolate, ca. 3 mm, base with 1 gland; petiole 1.5-5 cm, white tomentose; leaf blade ovate-elliptic or long ovate, 11-18 × 5-8 cm, thickly papery, abaxially white tomentose, adaxially glabrous, base auriculate-cordate or narrowly peltate, margin repand-dentate or coarsely serrate, apex shortly acuminate; palmate veins 5-7, lateral veins 4 or 5 pairs. Inflorescences ca. 2.5 cm, often once branched, tomentulose; peduncle ca. 1 cm, with 1 female flower and 1 or 2 male glomerules. Male flowers: calyx lobes 4, 1.5-2 mm, stellate pubescent; stamens 4; filament 2-3 mm; anthers ca. 0.5 mm; pistillode ca. 0.5 mm. Female flowers: pedicel ca. 1.3 cm; bracts 2, 1 leaflike, ca. 9 mm, 1 linear, ca. 4 mm, deciduous; sepals 6 or 7, linear, 6-13 × ca. 1 mm, tomentulose, margin sparsely glandular, persistent; ovary subglobose, tomentose; styles 3, ca. 7 mm. Capsule ca. 8 mm in diam., white tomentulose. Seeds ca. 5 mm in diam., marbled. Fl. and fr. Mar-Nov.

E and SE Guangxi [Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, N Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam].

Thickets or forests on limestone; 200-500 m.