Shrubs, 2-4 m. Branchlets grooved, densely stellate pilose and puberulent, glabrescent. Petiole 2.5-5.5 cm, stellate pilose, glabrescent; leaf blade simple, oblanceolate, 11-27 × 3.5-8 cm, papery or rarely thinly leathery, both surfaces stellate pilose, when young, glabrescent, lateral veins 14-16 on each side of midrib, base shallowly cordate, rarely cuneate, apex acuminate. Inflorescence racemose, pendulous, subterminal, 6-15 cm, purple stellate pilose. Pedicel slender, 8-10 mm. Epicalyx lobes lanceolate, 4-5 mm. Calyx purple, divided nearly to base, exterior stellate pilose, interior glabrous, lobes lanceolate, 12-14 × 3.5-4.2 mm, incurved with coherent tips, margin ciliate. Male flowers: androgynophore curved, 3.5-4 mm glabrous. Female flowers: ovary globose, white stellate pilose; style curved, white stellate pilose. Follicle red, drying brownish red, obliquely fusiform, 5-8 × 1.5-2.5 cm, 3-5-seeded, base tapered, apex narrowly acute, stellate pilose and puberulent. Seed purplish black, oblong, 12-15 × 8-10 mm. Fl. and fr. Feb.
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