Shrubs or small trees, 1-3 m tall; branchlets and petioles purplish brown, strigose or pubescent, rarely tomentose, then often glabrescent. Stipules linear-lanceolate, ca. 1 cm; petiole 1-7 cm; leaf blade ovate, narrowly ovate, or obovate, rarely oblanceolate, 3-15 × 1.5-6 cm, herbaceous, sometimes papery, 3-veined, basal-lateral pair reaching apex, anastomosing with basal pair of secondary veins, secondary veins 2-3 pairs, anastomosing by margin, adaxially dark green, sparsely strigillose, sometimes subglabrous, abaxially often gray-white tomentose, or light green, pubescent or strigillose on veins, base rounded or cuneate, margin serrate or dentate from base or sometimes middle, apex acuminate or caudate-acuminate. Inflorescences produced with or before new leaf flush in axils of fallen leaves and older branches, almost sessile clusters or pedunculate dichotomously branched cymes; glomerules 3-5 mm in diam. Male flowers: perianth lobes 3, ovate, connate at base, ca. 1.2 mm; rudimentary ovary subclavate, ca. 0.6 mm. Female flowers ca. 1 mm. Achene ovoid, ca. 1.2 mm, often verrucose, surrounded by a fleshy discoid cupule at base. Fl. Feb-Apr, fr. Jun-Oct.
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A herb or shrub. It grows to about 3 m high. The leaves have stalks. The leaves are 8-15 cm long by 3.5-5 cm wide. They are oval to sword shaped. They taper to the tip. There are teeth along the edge. They are hairy and pale underneath. The flowers are yellowish.
Rocky soils in warm, broad-leaved forests; at elevations from 500-2,200 metres. Forests, margins of mixed forests, open thickets, valleys, roadsides; at elevations from 300-2,500 metres in southern China.
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Rocky soils in warm, broad-leaved forests; at elevations from500-2,200 metres. Forests, margins of mixed forests, open thickets, valleys, roadsides; at elevations from 300-2,500 metres in southern China.
It is a subtropical plant. In Nepal it grows between 500-2200 m altitude. It grows on rocky soil in warm, broad-leaved forests. In Sichuan and Yunnan.
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