Shrubs, 0.5-3 m tall; stems glabrous. Petiole 0.4-3.5 cm, glabrous; leaf blade drying papery, grayish brown, grayish green, abaxially paler to silvery, elliptic, oblong-elliptic, lanceolate, or lanceolate-oblong, 4.5-16 × 2-6 cm, glabrous on both surfaces or puberulent abaxially, base acute to cuneate, margins flat, apex acute to acuminate; secondary veins 6-14 pairs, forming a rather straight submarginal vein, without domatia; stipules caducous, subtriangular to ovate, interpetiolar, 3-12 mm, glabrous to puberulent, 2-lobed for 1/3-1/2, lobes linear-lanceolate to subulate. Inflorescences terminal, congested-cymose to subcapitate, few flowered, puberulent to glabrous, subsessile to pedunculate; peduncle to 0.6 cm; branched portion subglobose, ca. 2 × 2 cm, without developed axes; bracts linear-lanceolate, 2-7 mm; pedicels 0.5-4 mm. Flowers subsessile to shortly pedicellate. Calyx glabrous; hypanthium portion turbinate, ca. 1 mm; limb 2-3 mm, deeply lobed; lobes linear-lanceolate to narrowly ligulate. Corolla white, glabrous outside; tube ca. 4 mm, white villous in throat; lobes oblong-triangular, 1.5-2 mm, apex incurved. Drupes red, ovoid or elliptic, 7-11 × 4.5-7 mm, with pedicels to 8 mm; pyrenes 3-or 5-ribbed. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Jun-Feb of following year.
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