Deciduous shrubs, 2-3(-5) m tall; branches and twigs gray-green to gray-brown, terete, corky winged or striate. Petiole 3-5 mm;leaf blade thickly papery, ovate-elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 6-10 × 2-3 cm, base cuneate or attenuate, margin crenulate, slightly pubescent, apex obtuse or acuminate; lateral veins 10-14 pairs, curving forward, disappearing before reaching margin. Peduncle 1.8-3 cm, 1-3 × dichotomously branched, several flowered, very slender; pedicel 5-10 mm. Flowers 4-merous, ca. 10 mm in diam.; sepals semirotund; petals greenish white, oblong. Capsule subglobose, 4-angled, brown or yellow-brown to red-brown, ca. 8 × 9 mm. Seeds ovoid, dark brown, partially covered by orange aril. Fl. May-Jul, fr. Aug-Nov.
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