Shrubs, ca. 1 m tall; branches villosulous to hirtellous becoming glabrescent. Leaves isophyllous or slightly anisophyllous; petiole 1-8 mm, moderately to densely villosulous or hirtellous; blade drying papery, oblanceolate, oblong-oblanceolate, narrowly elliptic, or narrowly lanceolate, 7-22 × 2-5.5 cm, adaxially sparsely hispidulous, abaxially moderately to densely hirtellous, base cuneate to attenuate and often long decurrent, apex acuminate; secondary veins (7-)12-23 pairs; stipules persistent, lanceolate, 4-10 mm, densely villosulous to glabrescent, acuminate. Inflorescences terminal, congested to laxly cymose, many flowered, hirtellous to glabrous; peduncles 0.4-1.4 cm; branched portion 3-5 × 4-8 cm; bracts ovate to reniform, 1-3 mm, marginally ciliate or lacerate with stipitate glands; pedicels 1.5-5 mm. Flowers pedicellate. Calyx glabrous; hypanthium portion hemispherical to subglobose, ca. 1.5 mm; limb deeply lobed; lobes ovate to lanceolate or triangular, 1-1.5 mm, marginally fimbriate or ciliate with stipitate glands, these 0.2-0.6 mm. Corolla white or yellow, tubular, outside pilose or glabrous; tube 7-10 mm, villous inside; lobes triangular, 1-1.5 mm. Berries subglobose, ca. 5 mm in diam., subglabrous. Fl. May, fr. autumn.
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