Shrubs, 1-4 m tall; branches green. Petioles 2-6 mm; leaf blade thickly leathery, usually pruinose, obovate, elliptic, or narrowly elliptic, 3.5-9 × 2-4 cm, base broadly cuneate, margin sparsely spiny denticulate, apex rounded or acute; lateral veins 5-7 pairs, reaching margin. Cymes usually 3-flowered; peduncle ca. 15 mm; pedicels 1-1.3 cm, median ones slightly longer; bractlets very small, shorter than 1 mm. Flowers slightly purple; calyx 4-lobed; petals broadly rounded. Filament short; anther with enlarged connective. Ovary without style; stigma disciform. Capsule subglobose, 1-1.5 mm in diam., pallid and pale yellowish brown, weakly squarrulose maculate. Seeds brown-red, ca. 1 cm, ca. 1/2 covered by aril. Fl. Aug-Jun, fr. Jul-Dec.
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