Shrubs or small trees. Young branches grayish brown, glabrous; current year branchlets reddish brown, densely pubescent; terminal buds densely pubescent. Petiole 3-6 mm, pubescent; leaf blade lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate, or rarely ovate-oblong, 5.5-9.5 × 1.5-2.5 cm, papery to thinly leathery, abaxially pale green and pubescent, adaxially green, shiny, and glabrous, midvein abaxially elevated and adaxially slightly impressed, secondary veins more than 15 on each side of midvein and visible or slightly raised on both surfaces, base cuneate, obtuse, or rounded, margin serrulate, apex caudate-acuminate and with an obtuse tip. Flowers axillary, solitary or to 3 in a cluster. Pedicel 2-3 mm, pubescent. Male flowers: bracteoles orbicular, ca. 1 mm; sepals 2-2.5 mm, subleathery, outside pubescent, apex obtuse; petals oblong to ovate, 3.5-4 mm; stamens 15-20; anthers not locellate; pistillode glabrous. Female flowers: bracteoles, sepals, and petals similar to those of male flowers but slightly smaller; ovary globose, glabrous, 3-loculed; style 2-3 mm, apically 3-5-lobed or parted. Fruit globose, 3-4 mm in diam. Fl. Nov-Dec, fr. Jun-Aug. 2n = 58.
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A shrub or small tree. The leaves are oblong and 6-10 cm long by 2-3 cm wide. They are pale green underneath. The flowers can occur singly or in groups of up to 3 in the axils of leaves. Male and female flowers are separate. The fruit is round and 3-4 mm across.
Hill forests, especially those of pine, at elevations from 1,500-2,400 metres. Open places at elevations of 1,000-2,800 metres in Nepal. Found especially in the clearings of evergreen hill forest in Laos.
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It is a subtropical plant. In Sikkim it grows between 1,000-2,200 m above sea level. In SE China it grows in forests on mountain slopes between 700-3,000 m above sea level. In Yunnan.
Hill forests, especially those of pine, 1500-2400 metres. Open places at elevations of 1000-2800 metres in Nepal.
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