Shrubs 0.5-1.5 m tall, young branchlets and young leaves with brown stellate hairs, becoming glabrous. Branches grayish brown to blackish brown, subsmooth, scattered lenticellate. Leaves opposite or alternate; petiole 10-20 mm; leaf blade ovate or oblong-ovate, 6-10 × 3-5 cm, leathery, lateral veins 5 or 6 pairs, base rounded to subcordate, apex shortly acuminate. Racemes solitary or paired, axillary, sometimes at leafless nodes, 6-10-flowered; rachis 5-15 mm, pilose; bracts ovate, ca. 1.5 mm. Pedicel 3-5 mm. Calyx turbinate, ca. 2.5 mm, limb annular. Mature bud tubular, 2.8-3 cm, tip ellipsoid. Corolla red or orange, slightly curved, apical portion inflated, ca. 3 mm in diam., lobes lanceolate. Berry yellowish, turbinate, 6-8 × 4-5 mm, base gradually tapered. Fl. May-Jul, fr. Jul-Aug.
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A woody parasite. It grows on other plants. It can be a shrub 0.5-1.5 m tall. The leaves have stalks. The leaf blades are 3.5-12.5 cm long by 1-5 cm wide. They are oval and end with a short sharp point. They are leathery. The young branches and young leaves have hairs. The flowers are red and in an umbrella shaped arrangement. The flower stalks are short. The fruit is 6-8 mm long and 4-5 mm across. They are yellowish and smooth.
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