Shrubs, to 1 m. Stems armed, villous. Leaves deciduous; petiole 2-5 mm, villous (hairs reddish brown to brown); blade (dull to lustrous adaxially), elliptic to obovate, 14-33 × 7-20 mm, base cuneate to attenuate, margins plane, apex rounded to obtuse, sometimes retuse, abaxial surface villous (hairs reddish brown to brown), venation visible, adaxial surface glabrous, midrib flat, marginal vein absent. Inflorescences 4-24-flowered. Pedicels 2-5.5 mm, villous (hairs reddish brown to brown). Flowers: calyx 1.4-2.1 mm diam.; sepals 5, 1.4-2.1 × 1.2-1.8 mm, villous; petals 5, white, median segment broadly ovate, 1.6-1.8 mm, lateral segments lanceolate, 1.6-1.8 mm; stamens 5, 2-2.3 mm; staminodes lanceolate, 1.5-1.8 mm, erose; anthers sagittate-lanceolate, 7-8 mm; pistil 5-carpellate; ovary 5-locular, 1-1.2 mm, glabrate to hairy; style 1-1.2 mm. Berries purplish black, ellipsoid to subglobose, 8.5-13 mm, glabrous or glabrate. Seeds 8-11 mm.
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