Shrubs 1-2 m tall. Branchlets glabrous, unarmed. Buds purplish brown, ovoid to oblong, 3-5 mm, glabrous or puberulent at scale margins, apex acute. Petiole red, 3-5 cm, glabrous or minutely pubescent, sparsely glandular hairy or tuberculate near base; leaf blade ovate to suborbicular, 5-10 × 6-10 cm, sparsely glandular hairy or tuberculate on both surfaces, with or without eglandular hairs, base cordate; lobes 3-5, ovate-triangular, margin roughly sharply doubly serrate, also with some simple teeth, apex acute to shortly acuminate; terminal lobe slightly longer than lateral ones. Racemes dense, (2.5-)5-10 cm, 8-20-flowered; rachis and pedicels pubescent or sparsely stalked glandular; bracts ovate, rarely oblong to sublanceolate, 1-2 mm or slightly longer, puberulent. Flowers bisexual, 4-6 mm in diam.; pedicel 1.5-3 mm. Calyx green tinged purple or purplish red, glabrous or puberulent; tube campanulate, 1.5-2 mm; lobes erect, obovate-spatulate to suborbicular, 2-3.5 mm, margin ciliate. Petals red or green tinged purplish, subspatulate to flabellate, 1-1.7 mm, margin ciliate. Stamens inserted level with petals and subequaling them. Ovary glabrous. Style subequaling stamens, apex 2-lobed. Fruit red, turning purplish black after maturity, globose, 0.6-0.7 cm, glabrous. Fl. Apr-Jun, fr. Jul-Aug.
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An erect shrub. The leaves have stalks. They have 3-5 lobes. They are 3-7.5 cm long and with teeth. They are heart shaped and the tip is pointed. The flowers are greenish-yellow. The fruit is a berry. It is red. It is edible.
Mixed, coniferous, or broad-leaved forests and forest margins, thickets on mountain slopes, river banks, or in ravines, grasslands on mountain slopes, mountain valleys, stream banks, roadsides; at elevations from 1,200-4,100 metres.
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It is a subtropical plant. In Nepal they grow between 2700-3900 m altitude. They grow in drier places in shrubby areas of forest. In Sichuan and Yunnan.
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