Clerodendrum bracteatum Wall. ex Walp.

Allied to Clerodendrum peii but differs in having densely yellow-brown tomentose branchlets, petioles, and peduncles, persistent bracts, and stamens and styles as long as corolla.

Shrubs or small trees, 3-4(-10) m tall. Branchlets 4-angled, densely yellowish brown tomentose. Petiole 2.5-4.5 cm, densely pubescent; leaf blade ovate to broadly ovate, 11-16 6-10 cm, abaxially densely villous, adaxially strigose-minutely hirsute, both surfaces yellow to orange glandular dotted, base broadly cuneate to subtruncate, margin entire or subentire, apex acuminate. Inflorescences axillary, cymelike capitula; peduncle 3.5-13 cm; bracts persistent, elliptic to ovate, 1-3 cm, apex acuminate to caudate, pubescent, glandular. Calyx red, ca. 1.6 cm, membranous, deeply 5-lobed, outside puberulent, with several small and large glands, inside glabrous; lobes ovate-lanceolate, ca. 1.1 cm, acuminate. Corolla white, 1.8-3.5 cm; tube slender, outside puberulent and glandular, inside glabrous; lobes oblong, 6-8 mm. Stamens equal or slightly longer than style. Drupes enclosed in calyx, green when young, purple-black at maturity, subglobose, ca. 6 mm in diam. Fl. and fr. Jul-Nov.

Himalaya (Nepal, Sikkim), Khasia, Assam, Burma.

NW Xizang, Yunnan [Bangladesh, Bhutan, India]

400-1600 m

Bamboo or mixed forests on mountain slopes; 900-1900 m.

Clerodendrum bracteatum là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hoa môi. Loài này được Wall. ex Walp. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1845.

苞花大青（学名：Clerodendrum bracteatum）为马鞭草科大青属的植物。分布在锡金、印度、不丹、孟加拉以及中国大陆的云南、西藏等地，生长于海拔900米至1,900米的地区，多生于山坡竹林缘和阔叶林中，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。