Treelet 3 m. Twigs densely patently red-brown long-hairy or tomentose. Leaves softly pilose beneath, acuminate with rounded base and denticulate margin, narrowly elliptic to ovate, 6-14 by 2-4 cm; nerves 7-15 pairs, meeting in a looped much prominent intramarginal vein; petiole 5-7 mm. Flowers in a spike or raceme of 2-4 cm; axis brown tomentose or spreadingly hairy. Bracts and bracteoles soon caducous, the first not seen, the latter appressedly long-hairy, c. 2½ mm long. Calyx divided into 5 appressedly pilose semi-elliptic 2 mm long lobes. Corolla c. 5 mm. Stamens 45-70. Disk pulvinate, pilose. Ovary sericeous, c. 1½ mm high; style with some hairs in the lower half, 2-5 mm. Fruit ellipsoid, hairy, c. 10 by 6 mm; stone lengthwise ribbed, 3-celled, 1, 2 or 3 cells fertile. Seed straight with straight embryo.
Ericoid, elfin and subalpine mossy forest, 2700-3000 m. Fl. March, June-July. Flowers fragrant.
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