Shrubs, 1-2 m tall; branchlets strigillose to hirtellous. Petiole 5-8 mm, strigillose to hirsute; leaf blade leathery, oblong or elliptic-oblong, 8-15 × 3-5 cm, glabrous adaxially, strigillose or hirsute on midrib and nerves abaxially, base cuneate, apex cuspidate or acute; lateral veins 7-9 pairs; nervules parallel; nerves and nervules elevated abaxially; stipules triangular-lanceolate to narrowly triangular, 5-8 mm, densely strigillose. Inflorescences glomerulate, sessile; bracts absent. Flowers subsessile. Calyx strigillose to hirsute; hypanthium obconic to campanulate, ca. 2 mm; limb 1-1.5 mm, deeply 4-lobed; lobes narrowly triangular, ca. 1 mm. Corolla 6-8 mm, densely strigillose in upper half outside; lobes 4. Fruit subglobose, 5-6 mm in diam., verrucose, strigillose; pyrenes 4. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Sep-Oct.