Shrubs, 1-1.5 m tall; branches and branchlets densely tomentose to strigose. Petiole 4-9 mm, tomentose or strigose; leaf blade papery or rigid-papery, oblanceolate, elliptic-oblanceolate, or oblong, 5-10 × 2-4 cm, glabrous adaxially, tomentose or strigillose on midrib, nerves, and nervules abaxially, base cuneate, obtuse, or rounded, apex shortly acuminate or acute; lateral veins 5-7 pairs; nervules subreticulate; nerves and nervules elevated conspicuously abaxially; stipules subulate-triangular, 2-3 mm, tomentose or strigose. Inflorescence glomerulate, sessile; bracts subulate, 4-6 mm, tomentose or strigose. Flowers sessile. Calyx tomentose or strigose; hypanthium portion obconic, 1-1.5 mm; limb deeply lobed; lobes 4, triangular-subulate to lanceolate, 1.5-2 mm. Corolla ca. 9 mm; tube ca. 7 mm, sparsely strigillose outside; lobes 4, ca. 2 mm. Fruit blue, subglobose, 4-5 mm in diam., tomentose or strigillose; pyrenes 4.
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