Erect shrubs 1-3(-5) m tall, glabrous throughout; stem gray-brown; branches compressed at upper part, purple; branchlets green. Stipules triangular-lanceolate, ca. 2 mm; petiole 3-4 mm; leaf blade ovate, broadly ovate, or rhombic-ovate, 3-7 × 1.8-3.5 cm, leathery, abaxially pruinose-green, adaxially dark green, base obtuse or acute, apex (obtuse or) acute to subacuminate; lateral veins 3-8 pairs. Flowers small, solitary or 2-4-flowered in axillary clusters, male in proximal axils, female in distal axils, sometimes male and female apart, inserted in different branchlets. Male flowers: pedicels 2-3 mm; calyx turbinate, ca. 2 mm, thickened, 6-dentate at apex; stamens 3, connate into a column. Female flowers usually several per axil; pedicels ca. 2 mm; calyx campanulate, shallowly 6-fid at apex, ca. 4 mm in diam.; sepals subequal, subtruncate and apiculate at apex, much enlarged in fruit to ca. 8 mm in diam., upper part radial-spreading into disk; ovary ovoid; stigmas 3, to ca. 0.6 mm, distinctly bifid at apex, lobes recurved, elongating in fruit to 1-2 mm. Fruiting pedicel ca. 5 mm; capsules globose, 5-6 × 6-8 mm, apex rounded, without apical rim, yellowish to orange; stigmas free, undivided or apically slightly bifid. Seeds 4.6-5 × ca. 3 × 3 mm, red. Fl. year-round, fr. May-Dec.
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A shrub. It grows up to 3.5 m high. The leaves are oval and 3-8 cm long by 2-3 cm wide. The edges are often curved back. Male and female flowers are separate.
The understorey of mixed evergreen or deciduous forest, dry Dipterocarp forest, scrub vegetation, forest margins, roadsides, open rocky places and along rivers on various soils, at elevations from 300-1,300 metres.
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It is a tropical plant. It grows in sunny places on the edges of forests. In China it grows between 100-1,000 m above sea level. In Sichuan and Yunnan.
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