Shrubs ca. 0.7 m tall, branchlets and leaves densely reddish brown scurfy when young, becoming glabrous. Branches grayish, densely lenticellate. Leaves usually opposite, yellowish green, drying blackish; petioles 2-5 mm; leaf blade ovate or elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, 2-5 × 1-2.4 cm, papery to thinly leathery, lateral veins 3 or 4 pairs, abaxially obscure, base cuneate and slightly decurrent, apex obtusely acute or subacuminate. Racemes solitary or paired, mostly axillary, sometimes 3 terminal on short shoots, 2(-5)-flowered; peduncle 8-15 mm, scurfy; bracts ovate, ca. 1 mm, minutely pilose. Flowers 4-merous. Calyx urceolate, 1.5-2 mm, limb minute, subentire or repand. Mature bud subcylindric. Corolla reddish, base slightly inflated, 4-angled, stellate pubescent, petals lanceolate, 7-9 mm, apical portion reflexed, margin membranous in middle. Filaments ca. 2.5 mm; anthers 2-loculed, ca. 2 mm. Style 4-angled, 6-7 mm; stigma capitate. Berry orange or reddish, ovoid, ca. 6 × 4 mm, smooth. Fl. Apr-Jun, fr. Aug-Oct.
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