Shrubs, 1-2 m tall; branches and branchlets glabrous to thinly appressed pubescent or strigose. Petiole 0.4-1 cm, subglabrous to hirsute or strigillose; leaf blade subleathery or papery, ovate-oblong, 6-10 × 2-5 cm, glabrous adaxially, thinly appressed strigillose or subglabrous abaxially, base acute or obtuse, apex acuminate or cuspidate-acuminate; lateral veins 4-6 pairs; nervules subparallel, elevated abaxially; stipules generally persistent, triangular to narrowly triangular, 0.5-1.2 mm, strigillose. Inflorescences glomerulate, sessile; bracts absent. Flowers sessile. Calyx sparsely to densely strigillose; hypanthium portion campanulate to obconic, ca. 1 mm; limb 1-1.5 mm, shallowly toothed; teeth 5, triangular. Corolla 6-10 mm, glabrous to puberulent outside, villous inside; lobes 5. Fruit globose or subglobose, 5-6 mm in diam., glabrous to strigillose; pyrenes 5 or 6.
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