Shrubs. Old branches dark brown; branchlets stellate tomentose. Stipules subulate, ca. 4 mm, caducous; petiole 5-8 mm; leaf blade lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 9-10.5 × 2-3.5 cm, papery, dark brown when dried, abaxially densely softly gray-brown tomentose, adaxially sparsely coarsely shortly stellate hairy, base rounded, margin serrulate, teeth alternately large and small. Cymes 3-5-flowered; peduncle 4-7 mm, tomentose. Pedicel 3-4 mm, tomentose. Bracts 3-4 mm. Sepals 5-6 mm, abaxially tomentose, adaxially glabrous. Petals oblong, 2-3 mm; glands scalelike, enclosed by ring of hairs. Stamens shorter than sepals. Ovary hairy; stigma many-lobed. Drupe 2-4-lobed, lobes globose, ca. 1 cm in diam., glossy. Fl. Aug.
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