Shrubs, 1-2 m tall; branches and branchlets densely spreading villous. Petiole 4-8 mm, densely villous; leaf blade papery or subleathery, ovate-lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, 5-9 × 2-3 cm, glabrous adaxially, densely soft villous abaxially, base cuneate or obtuse, apex cuspidate-acuminate; lateral veins 4-6 pairs; nervules subparallel; stipules generally persistent, narrowly triangular, 1-1.5 mm, densely strigose. Inflorescences glomerulate to subcapitate, sessile; bracts absent. Flowers sessile to subsessile. Calyx densely villous to hirsute; hypanthium portion obconic, 1-1.5 mm; limb divided nearly to base; lobes 5, lanceolate to narrowly triangular, 2-5 mm, acuminate. Corolla 7-8 mm, outside hispid, inside villous; lobes 5. Fruit ovoid-globose, 4-5 mm in diam., hirsute to villous; pyrenes 5. Fl. Aug-Sep, fr. Jun-Dec.
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