Shrubs erect, ca. 2 m tall, branched. Branchlets smooth, glabrous. Stipules narrowly lanceolate, ca. as long as petioles or slightly longer, persistent; petiole 1-2 mm, glabrous; leaf blade abaxially greenish, adaxially green, ovate, oblong, or suborbicular, very small, 4-10 × 3-6 mm, thinly papery, adaxially glabrous, lateral veins 4 or 5 pairs, base rounded, apex obtuse, mucronulate. Flowers white, 2.5-3 mm in diam., glabrous, solitary or 2-or 3-fascicled in axils of leaves. Pedicel 2-4 mm. Sepals ovate-triangular. Petals oblong-spatulate, ca. as long as stamens, apically obtuse or acute. Drupe orange or purple at maturity, cylindric, 7-9 mm, 3-4 mm in diam., with inconspicuous remnants of disk and calyx tube at base; mesocarp sweet; fruiting pedicel 2-4 mm, glabrous. Fl. Jul-Oct, fr. Apr-Jul of following year.
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A straggling shrub. It grows to about 3 m high. The leaves are 0.5-3 cm long by 0.3-1.8 cm wide. They are oval. The flowers are very small. They are green and in clusters in the axils of leaves or at the ends of branches. The fruit is a berry. It is blue when ripe.
It grows in high altitude thickets and on cliffs between 2,100-4,500 m above sea level in China. They grow in Nepal from 2400-4000 m altitude. In Sichuan and Yunnan.
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Subalpine thickets, cliffs; at elevations from 2,100-4,500 metres. Scrub thickets in dry places; at elevations from 2,400-4,000 metres in Nepal.
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