Shrubs 1-1.5 m tall. Flowering branchlets brown, 3-8 cm, 4-6-leaved. Petiole 1-2 mm; leaf blade abaxially grayish green, ovate, ovate-elliptic, or lanceolate, 1-3.5(-5) × 0.3-1.8(-2) cm, subleathery, abaxially densely 11-14-rayed stellate hairy, indumentum continuous, hairs usually with central rays, adaxially scabrous and sparsely 5-8-rayed stellate hairy, hairs usually with papilliform base, veins in 3 or 4 pairs, base broadly cuneate, margin serrulate, apex obtuse, acute, or acuminate. Cymes 3-6 × 3-4 mm, 5-15-flowered; pedicels 5-10 mm. Calyx tube ca. 2.5 × 3 mm, densely stellate hairy; lobes ovate-oblong, ovate, or lanceolate, 1-2 mm, apex acute. Petals induplicate, white, narrowly elliptic or obovate-oblong, 10-12 × 3.5-4 mm, margin entire or crisped. Outer stamens ca. 5 mm; filaments 2-dentate at apex, teeth oblong; anthers stalked, ovoid. Inner stamens shorter than outer ones; filaments acute or 2-or 3-lobed at apex; anthers borne near middle of filaments abaxially. Styles 3 or 4, shorter than stamens. Capsule gray-yellow, hemispheric or subcampanulate, 3-4 mm in diam., with persistent, erect calyx lobes. Fl. May, fr. Sep.
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A shrub. It grows 1-1.5 m tall. The leaves are narrowly oval and 1-4 cm long by 1-2 cm wide. They are hairy underneath. The young flowering branches are brown and 3-8 cm long with 4-6 leaves. The fruit is a grey-yellow capsule 3-4 mm across.
It is a temperate plant. It grows in thickets between 2,000-3,000 m above sea level. In Sichuan and Yunnan.
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