Shrubs to 0.7-1.5 m tall, deciduous, branching usually trichotomous. Branchlets brown, strong, stout, usually pubescent when young. Leaves falling before anthesis; leaf blade oblong, lanceolate, or oblanceolate, 8-20 × 2.5-5.5 cm, both surfaces whitish gray sericeous, more densely so abaxially, base gradually narrowed, cuneate, apex apiculate; lateral veins 10-13 pairs, slender, curved, pubescent. Inflorescences terminal and axillary, capitate, 30-50-flowered; peduncle 1-2 cm, grayish white hirsute; bracts ca. 10, pilose. Flowers fragrant. Calyx yellow inside, 13-20 × 4-5 mm; tube exterior densely white sericeous; lobes 4, ovate-lanceolate, ca. 3.5 × 3 mm. Anthers subovoid, ca. 2 mm. Disk shallowly cup-shaped, margin irregular. Ovary ovoid, ca. 4 × 2 mm, apex sericeous; style glabrous, ca. 2 mm; stigma globose, ca. 3 mm. Drupe ellipsoid, ca. 8 × 3.5 mm, apex pubescent. Fl. late winter and early spring, fr. spring-summer. 2n = 36*.
Slopes in forests and shrubberies, along streamsides, at elevations from 300-1,600 metres.
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