Lasianthus

Sect. I. Stipulares Hook.f. (1880) 179 View in CoL . —

Type: Lasianthus stipularis Wight View in CoL

Key to the species

1. Stipules completely or almost covering the cymes, bracts not forming a dense and thick head if existent; leaves less than 16 cm long with 6 –11 pairs of nerves........... 2

1. Stipules partly covering the cymes, bracts forming a dense and thick head; leaves usually longer than 16 cm with more than 12 pairs of nerves................ 53. L. griffithii View in CoL

2. Bracts numerous, longer than 5 mm ................ 3

2. Bracts few, less than 5 mm long................... 4

3. Bracts linear to narrowly lanceolate, up to 1.5 cm long, villous............................. 117. L. stipularis View in CoL

3. Bracts ovate-triangular to lanceolate, 7– 8 mm long, glabrous except hairy margins................... 52. L. glaber View in CoL

4. Branchlets and leaves glabrous; leaves oblong; calyx with a shallowly cupular limb, truncate or minute-teethed at apex.......................... 100. L. pseudo­stipularis View in CoL

4. Branchlets hirsute; leaves ovate-elliptic with hirsute nerves beneath; calyx without a shallowly cupular limb but with lanceolate lobes with barbate hairs at margin 9. L. barbiger View in CoL