Dwarf shrubs, 0.6–1.5 m tall; branchlets slender, with very short internodes, 3–4 mm in diam., densely rufous to gray-brown tomentose; bud scales persistent. Petiole 4–5 mm, densely thick rufous woolly-tomentose; leaf blade thickly leathery, oblong to oblanceolate, 2–4 × 0.5–1 cm; base attenuate-cuneate; margin strongly revolute; apex blunt-rounded with small and introrse curved sharp point; abaxial surface with indumentum 2-layered, upper layer rust-red, thick, woolly, hairs long-branched, lower layer thin, appressed; adaxial surface slightly rugulose, glabrous. Inflorescence compact, umbellate, ca. 8-flowered; rachis ca. 5 mm. Pedicel ca. 1 cm, densely rufous-tomentose; calyx lobes 5, ca. 2 mm, subtriangular, glabrous or only tomentose at base outside, margin ciliate; corolla funnelform, white to pale yellow, with crimson spots on corolla-tube and on upper lobes, ca. 3 cm, lobes 5, slightly unequal; stamens 10, unequal, filaments white-puberulent in lower 1/2; ovary ca. 4 mm, densely rusty red-fasciculate branched-tomentose; style shorter than corolla and longer than stamens, glabrous. Capsule oblong-cylindric, ca. 10 × 5 mm, ± hairy. Fl. Jun–Jul, fr. Sep–Oct.
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