Shrubs or subshrubs, 0.2-0.5(-1) m tall; branches densely hirtellous or strigillose to glabrous. Leaves isophyllous or slightly anisophyllous; petiole 0.2-2 cm, hirtellous or strigillose to glabrous; blade drying submembranous, usually pale, and slightly grayish green, oblong-lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, ovate, or elliptic, 8-20 × 3-5 cm, adaxially sparsely hispid to glabrous, abaxially glabrous or puberulent, hirtellous, or hispidulous at least on veins, base obtuse to cuneate then usually long decurrent, apex acute to acuminate; secondary veins 5-20 pairs; stipules usually persistent, elliptic-oblong, obovate, or suborbicular, markedly contracted to stipitate at base, 3-18 mm, sometimes veined, hispidulous, hirtellous, or glabrous, obtuse or rounded. Inflorescences terminal, laxly cymose, many flowered, glabrous, deflexed to pendulous; peduncles 3.5-7 cm; branched portion 2-7 × 2-16 cm; bracts elliptic, obovate, reniform, or stipuliform, sometimes fused in pairs, 1-3 mm, marginally entire or with stipitate glands, these 0.2-0.5 mm; pedicels 1-2.5 mm. Flowers pedicellate. Calyx glabrous; hypanthium portion subglobose to obconic, 1-2 mm; limb deeply lobed; lobes lanceolate, spatulate, or triangular, 1-2 mm, entire or with 1-3 pairs of stipitate glands. Corolla white, tubular, outside glabrous; tube 5-7 mm, inside apparently glabrous; lobes ovate, 1.5-2 mm. Berries subglobose, 4-4.5 mm in diam., glabrous. Fl. Jul-Aug, fr. Sep-Nov.
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