Shrubs, to 2 m tall; branches glabrous, lenticellate, striate. Leaves opposite; petiole 1-1.5 cm; blade drying thickly papery, opaque, dark green, oblong-lanceolate, 10-16 × 3-4.5 cm, base obtuse, apex cuneate, acute, or acuminate; secondary veins 14-16 pairs; stipules triangular, ca. 10 mm, acute with arista ca. 3 mm. Inflorescence terminal, corymbiform-cymose, 8-9 × 9-10 cm, puberulent; peduncle 0.1-0.5 cm; bracts linear-lanceolate to linear, 3-5 mm. Flowers sessile to subsessile. Calyx puberulent; hypanthium turbinate, ca. 2 mm; limb deeply lobed; lobes broadly triangular, ca. 1 mm, obtuse. Corolla red, outside glabrous; tube ca. 10 mm, glabrous inside; lobes narrowly oblong, 4-5 mm, obtuse to subrounded. Drupe unknown. Fl. Apr-Jun.
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