Shrubs or semishrubs, deciduous or evergreen, dense, spreading, 1–4 m tall. Branchlets reddish brown or purple, terete, slender, initially densely grayish white pubescent, glabrescent; buds depressed-triangular-ovoid, small, subglabrous. Leaves with 7–15 pairs of leaflets; stipules caducous, lanceolate, membranous; petiole 3–5 mm, pubescent to subglabrous, petiolules very short or nearly absent; leaflet blade elliptic or elliptic-oblong, rarely obovate-oblong, (3–)5–10 × 2–4 mm, both surfaces sparsely pubescent, abaxially densely so, base broadly cuneate or subrounded, margin entire, apex acute or mucronulate. Corymb 2–3 cm in diam., 3–5-flowered; peduncle grayish white pubescent; bracts caducous, linear-lanceolate, membranous, pubescent. Pedicel 3–5 mm, grayish white pubescent. Flowers ca. 1 cm in diam. Hypanthium campanulate, ca. 3 mm, abaxially subglabrous or sparsely pubescent. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, abaxially pubescent, margin entire, apex acute. Petals oblong, 5–7 × 3–4 mm. Stamens 20. Styles nearly as long as stamens, villous basally. Pome bluish black, ovoid or subglobose, 6–8 mm; fruiting pedicel 5–8 mm, slightly pubescent; sepals persistent, erect. Fl. Apr–May, fr. May–Jul.
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It is a bushy shrub. It grows 3 m high. The branches arch over. The leaves have small leaflets along the stalk. The leaflets are greyish and downy. The flowers are white. They are 18 mm across. The flowers are in dense clusters. The fruit are small dark red berries. They ripen to bluish-black.
It is a temperate plant. It is native to SW China. It grows in Yunnan in China. It grows in mixed forests between 1,000-3,000 m above sea level. It suits hardiness zones 8-10. In Sichuan and Yunnan.
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By streams and in hot dry river valleys, 350-2000 metres. Among shrubs, slopes, fields, roadsides and mixed forests at elevations of 1500-3000 metres.
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