Shrubs or subshrubs 0.6-1.5 m tall, with creeping rhizomes. Stems usually minutely puberulent or sparsely brown scaly when young. Petiole 5-8 mm; leaf blade elliptic-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, 7-25 × 1-5.8 cm, membranous or subpapery, glabrous adaxially, usually ± finely brown scaly abaxially, base cuneate, margin entire or shallowly crenulate, recurved, punctate, apex long acuminate or rarely acute; lateral veins ca. 8 on each side of midrib, marginal vein obscure. Inflorescences terminal, subumbellate, simple, on curved specialized lateral branches 5-10 cm. Flowers white or pink, 4-5 mm. Pedicel 1-1.5 cm, puberulent. Sepals oblong-ovate or lanceolate, ca. 1.5 mm, ± sparsely punctate, glabrous, apex acute or narrowly rounded. Petals ovate, 4-5 mm, punctate, glabrous outside, ± minutely puberulent inside, apex acute. Stamens subequalling petals; anthers narrowly oblong-lanceolate, with or without glands dorsally. Ovary glabrous; ovules ca. 5, uniseriate. Fruit reddish, globose, 5-6 mm in diam., punctate. Fl. Apr-Jun, fr. Oct-Jan. 2n = 24, 46.
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An erect shrub. It has leaves arranged in a spiral. It grows 60-150 cm high. It has creeping rhizomes or underground stems. The stems have small hairs. The leaf stalk is 5-8 mm long. The leaves are narrow and slightly toothed. They are 7-25 cm long by 1-5.8 cm wide. There are 8 side veins each side of the midrib. The flowers are pink and waxy. The petals overlap. The flowers occur in drooping heads with the oldest at the outside. These are in the axils of leaves on special curved side branches and near the top of the plant. The fruit are bright red berries. They are 5-6 mm across. They are one seeded.
Has petiolate lanceolate distinctly punctate leaves with crisped slightly revolute margins, reaching 7 cm. long in cultivated material.. The calyx-lobes are ovate and the white flowers which reach 8 mm. in diameter have ovate acute corolla-lobes.. The filaments are almost obsolete and the anthers mucronate.
Evergreen forests, more or less shady places; at elevations from the lowlands to 800 metres. Mixed or broad-leaved forests, damp places, bamboo woods, hillsides and valleys; at elevations from 100-2,500 metres.
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It is a temperate and subtropical plant. It needs to be in frost free places. In China it grows in mixed and broad leafed forests and damp places between 100-2500 m altitude. It suits hardiness zones 7-11.
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