Chrysojasminum subhumile - East-Himalayan Yellow Jasmine

East-Himalayan Yellow Jasmine, a shrub 0.5-5 m, is the East Himalayan cousin of the more widespread Yellow Jasmine. Flowers are borne at branch-ends, in panicled cymes 7-12 cm in diameter, 10-120-flowered; bracts linear, 1-5 mm. Flowers are yellow, nearly funnel-shaped; tube 0.8-1.2 cm; petals 4 or 5, broadly ovate, nearly round, or oblong, 3-9 mm. Flower-stalks are 1-1.2 cm. Sepals are wavy or flat. Leaves are alternate, compound or simple; leaf-stalk 0.5-6 cm; leaf blade ovate, sometimes nearly round or lanceshaped, 1.5-14 x 1-6.5 cm, along with leaflet blade leathery, hairless or velvet-hairy along midrib below; leaflets 3, stalkless or with leaflet-stalk to 3 cm; leaflet blade ovate or ovate-lanceshaped, 3-12.5 x 1-5 cm, base rounded or wedge-shaped, tip pointed to tapering; primary veins 3-6 on each side of midrib, obscure. Berries are black or red-black, spherical or ellipsoid, 1-1.6 x 0.5-1.6 cm. East-Himalayan Yellow Jasmine is found along streams, in woods, at altitudes of 700-3300 m, Nepal, East Himalaya, SW Sichuan, Yunnan. Flowering: March-July.