Shrubs deciduous, to 3 m tall. Branchlets reddish brown or dark brown, gray villous when young, glabrous when old; buds reddish brown, narrowly ovoid, glabrous. Petiole 1–2 mm, initially slightly villous, later glabrous; leaf blade elliptic or rhomboidal-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 2–5 × 1–2.2 cm, veins 4–6 pairs, raised abaxially and impressed adaxially, both surfaces glabrous or slightly gray villous along veins when young, glabrescent, base broadly cuneate or ± rounded, margin sharply serrate, apex acuminate to caudate. Inflorescences 2-or 3-fascicled or flowers solitary, without peduncle. Pedicel (2–)3–5 cm, slender, glabrous, sparsely minutely lenticellate. Flowers 6–8 mm in diam. Hypanthium glabrous abaxially. Sepals triangular-ovate, 1–1.5 mm. Petals white, suborbicular, 3–3.5 mm in diam., glabrous, apex obtuse. Stamens 15–20, shorter than or nearly as long as petals. Ovary densely gray villous apically; styles 2, connate from base nearly to middle or apex, glabrous. Fruit red, ellipsoid or oblong-ovate, 6–7 × 5–6 mm, glabrous; sepals incurved; fruiting pedicels 3–5 mm, lenticellate. Fl. Jun.
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