Shrubs, to 3.5 m tall. Branchlets grayish white, only upper part pilosulose. Leaves unifoliolate; petioles 1-4 cm; leaflets shortly petiolate; blades broadly oblanceolate or obovate, 13-20 × 4-7 cm, thinly papery, glabrous, midvein and 10 pairs of lateral veins prominent on both surfaces, base cuneate or sometimes slightly obtuse, margin sparsely serrate above middle, apex caudate-acuminate. Inflorescences solitary, racemose, main rachis unbranched, 5-7 cm, pubescent; peduncles ca. 1.5 cm, glabrous. Flowers white, shortly pedicellate. Sepals: outer 2 ovate, ca. 1 mm, pilosulose; inner 2 obovate, ca. 2 mm. Petals 1.5-1.8 mm; scales ca. 1 mm. Fruit unknown. Fl. early summer.
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