Shrubs deciduous, 0.5-3 m. Branchlets often puberulent. Petiole 1-8 mm, slender, glabrous; leaf blade narrowly lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, rarely elliptic-lanceolate, 1-4 (-8.5) cm × 3-8(-25) mm, papery, glabrous, abaxially glandular dotted, base cuneate or obtuse, apex acuminate or obtuse and mucronulate; primary veins 3-5(-7) on each side of midrib, obscure. Panicles terminal or axillary, 5-13 × 1.5-10 cm. Flowers subsessile. Calyx 1-1.5 mm, glabrous. Corolla 3-5.5 mm; tube ca. as long as lobes. Stamens approaching apex of corolla lobes; anthers 1.5-2.5 mm. Fruit blue-black, obovoid, 5-7 × 3-5 mm. Fl. May-Aug, fr. Aug-Nov. 2n = 46*.
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