Shrubs, 1-2 m tall; branches and branchlets densely appressed strigillose. Petiole 3-8 mm, densely strigillose; leaf blade papery, ovate, 5-8 × 2.5-3 cm, glabrous adaxially, appressed strigillose on midrib and nerves abaxially, base obtuse or subrounded, apex shortly cuspidate; lateral veins ca. 5 pairs; nervules subparallel; nerves and nervules elevated abaxially; stipules generally persistent, triangular to broadly triangular, 1-1.5 mm, densely strigillose. Inflorescences glomerulate to subcapitate, sessile; bracts absent. Flowers sessile or subsessile. Calyx densely strigillose; hypanthium portion obconic, ca. 1 mm; limb deeply lobed; lobes 5, oblong to elliptic or oblanceolate, 3-3.5 mm, nerved, obtuse. Corolla ca. 5 mm, densely hirsute outside, villous in upper half inside; lobes 5, triangular. Fruit subglobose, 4-5 mm in diam., strigillose; pyrenes 5.
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