Shrubs, 2-3 m tall; branches terete to angled, densely white pubescent to glabrescent. Leaves opposite; petiole ca. 3 cm, sparsely pubescent; blade drying membranous, adaxially drying pale green, abaxially gray, broadly elliptic or broadly ovate, 16-22 × 8.5-12 cm, adaxially sparsely appressed pubescent with pubescence denser on principal veins, abaxially glabrescent except densely appressed pubescent on principal veins, base acute, apex acute; secondary veins 11 or 12 pairs; stipules ovate-lanceolate, ca. 13 mm, acuminate and shortly 2-lobed. Inflorescence congested-cymose, ca. 4 × 8 cm, densely pale gray pilose, pedunculate or sessile and tripartite; bracts lanceolate, ca. 9 mm; pedicels ca. 1 mm. Flowers pedicellate, biology not noted. Calyx sparsely pubescent; hypanthium portion urceolate to ellipsoid, ca. 2.5 mm; lobes lanceolate, ca. 2 mm, with 1 lobe in ca. 3 flowers per inflorescence expanded into calycophyll, blade ovate, ca. 4 × 2.1 cm, densely pubescent along veins on both surfaces, base broadly cuneate, stipe ca. 19 mm, apex acute. Corolla pale blue, salverform, outside densely pubescent; tube ca. 23 mm, inside densely yellow clavate puberulent at upper part; lobes orbicular-ovate, ca. 2.5 mm, adaxially sparsely yellow papillose, mucronate. Berry globose, ca. 5 × 5 mm. Fl. May.
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