Agapetes angulata - Angled-Stem Lantern Flower

Angled-Stem Lantern Flower is a tree-dwelling shrub 0.8-1.3 m tall, hairless. Twigs are angled, 4-5 mm in diameter, becoming warty. Leaves are scattered; leaf-stalk 0.5-1 cm; leaf blade lanceshaped or elliptic-lanceshaped, 12-14 x 3.5-4 cm, thinly papery, secondary veins 8 or 9 pairs, raised below, base wedge-shaped, margin sparsely minutely toothed, tip tapering. Flowers are borne in clusters which are corymbs or almost umbels, 2.5-4 cm, 5-15-flowered; axis 0.4-1.5 cm. Flowers are red to reddish yellow, with deep colored zig-zag bands, 1.5-2.7 cm, rather thinly fleshy; petals green, triangular, 3.5-6 mm. Filaments are 1-2 mm, with sparse hairs; anthers about 2.6 cm. Flower-stalks are 0.9-2.2 cm, slender, expanded at tip. Sepal-tube is inverted-pyramidal, 1.5-1.7 mm, slightly 5-angled; limb 1.6-2.5 mm, divided about 4/5; sepals triangular, 1.2-2.3 mm. Angled-Stem Lantern Flower is is found in forests, at altitudes of 700-1500 m, in NE India, Myanmar, China. Flowering: February-March.