Shrubs 1-2 m tall. Branchlets subterete, distinctly lenticellate. Petiole 4-17 cm, densely brown, yellow-brown, or purplish pubescent when young, glabrescent; leaf blade ovate to broadly ovate, 8-20 5-15 cm, papery, abaxially sparsely glandular pubescent to subglabrous and with several peltate glands near base, adaxially sparsely pubescent, base cuneate, truncate, or cordate, margin serrate, apex acuminate to acute, veins 4-6 pairs. Inflorescences terminal, dense, capitate, flat-topped cymes; bracts lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, ca. 3 cm, deciduous; bractlets lanceolate, ca. 1.8 cm. Calyx campanulate, tube 2-6 mm, pubescent, with several peltate glands; lobes narrowly triangular to triangular, 1-10 mm. Corolla pinkish, red, or purple, tube 2-3 cm; lobes obovate, 5-8 mm. Stamens and style exserted. Drupes blue-black, subglobose, 6-12 mm in diam. Fl. and fr. May-Nov.
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A shrub. It grows 1-2 m tall. The leaves are broadly oval and 8-20 cm long by 5-15 cm wide. They have a few hairs underneath. The base is wedge shaped and their are teeth along the edge. The flowers are in dense flat topped groups at the ends of the branches. They are pink, red or purple.
Waste places, hillsides and damp shady roadsides at elevations up to 2,300 metres. Mixed forests on mountain slopes and along the sides of roads, at elevations below 2,500 metres.
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Waste places, hillsides and damp shady roadsides at elevations up to 2,300 metres. Mixed forests on mountain slopes and along the sides of roads, at elevations below 2,500 metres.
It is a tropical plant. In Sichuan and Yunnan.
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