Shrubs, 1-2 m tall; branches and branchlets glabrous or subglabrous to sparsely strigose on young branches. Petiole 3-10 mm, sparsely strigillose to strigose or subglabrous; leaf blade leathery or papery, lanceolate, lanceolate-oblong, or oblong, 9-15 × 2-3.5 cm, glabrous adaxially, glabrous to strigose or hirtellous abaxially, especially on lateral veins and nervules, base acute to obtuse, apex cuspidate or cuspidate-acuminate to long caudate; lateral veins 5-7 pairs or numerous; nervules reticulate; stipules generally persistent, triangular, 1-3 mm, glabrous to minutely hirsute to strigillose. Inflorescences congested-cymose, pedunculate to subsessile, densely strigillose; peduncle 1-2 mm; bracts 0.2-1 mm. Flowers sessile or subsessile. Calyx strigillose to glabrescent; hypanthium portion campanulate, 1-1.5 mm; limb 1-2 mm, 4-or 5-dentate; teeth short to well developed, linear. Corolla 13-14 mm at anthesis, glabrous outside or sometimes puberulent on lobes, villous inside; tube 9-10 mm; lobes 4 or 5, spatulate, 4-4.5 mm. Fruit globose, 5-6 mm in diam., glabrous; pyrenes 4 or 5. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Jun-Oct.
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