Shrubs, erect or mound-forming, ca. 1 m; burl absent; twigs sparsely short-hairy. Leaves: petiole 4-5 mm; blade bright green, lustrous, elliptic to narrowly lanceolate-elliptic, 1-2.5 × 0.5-1.5 cm, base cuneate to obtuse, margins entire, plane, surfaces smooth, sparsely puberulent . Inflorescences panicles, 3-5-branched; immature inflorescence pendent, (compact), branches ± spreading, axis 1-1.5 cm, 1+ mm diam., sparsely short-hairy; bracts not appressed, scalelike, deltate to awl-like, 1.5-3 mm (longer than buds), apex acute, surfaces glabrous. Pedicels 4-5 mm, glabrous. Flowers: corolla white, urceolate; ovary glabrous. Fruits subglobose, 5-6 mm diam., glabrous. Stones distinct. 2n = 26.
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