Small tree or shrub. Branchlets rather slender, tips grey-tomentellous. Leaves lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, or oblanceolate, apex ± shortly subacutely acuminate, base attenuate, firmly chartaceous, subentire or sometimes sparsely very shortly serrate-dentate in the upper part, younger and submature ones glabrous above, appressedly greyish-stellate-tomentellous all over beneath, mature ones glabrescent tardily, first on the inter-venium, finally also almost completely along midrib and nerves, 6-9(-l 1) by (2-)2.5-3(-3.5) cm, nerves (10-)12-14(-15) pairs, prominent beneath, reticulation visible only in the already glabrate parts; petiole rather slender, (5-)6-10(-12) mm. Racemes several, panicled, laxly or more densely set with flowers, 7-14(-20) cm, covered with a short, greyish or rusty-stellate tomentum; rachis slender. Pedicels slender, c. 2 mm (c. 3 mm in fruit), bracts subulate-linear, 3-5 mm, caducous in the beginning of anthesis. Calyx lobes ovate-acuminate, glabrous inside in part, 1.5-2 mm. Petals obovate-spathulate, minutely erose apically, glabrous, white, 2-2.2(-2.5) mm. Filaments dilated towards the base, glabrous, 1 mm; anthers obovate, hardly ½ mm. Ovary tomentellous; style thickish, glabrous, 1 mm, very shortly 3-lobed. Capsule subglobose, 2.5 mm ø. Seeds sub-trigonous-ovoid, 0.7-1 mm.
Scattered in thickets or forests on slopes, chiefly on ridges in mossy forest, 600-1800 m. Fl. fr. May-Sept.
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