A flowering plant from Zijin County, Guangdong, with silvery-white hairs on the upper leaf surface and a pink corolla 12 to 15 mm long. Its two fertile stamens have fused anthers, and it sits closest to Oreocharis acaulis and Oreocharis dinghushanensis. A single population of about 800 mature individuals grows in 0.4 sq km, and it has been provisionally assessed as Vulnerable. News article: https://bioengineer.org/silvery-leaved-pink-flower-joins-gesneriaceae-as-new-species-from-guangdong/
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