Shrubs 0.5-1 m tall, young stems, leaves, inflorescences, and corollas tomentose, hairs mixed, grayish yellow, yellowish brown or brown, both verticillate and stellate. Branches grayish brown or blackish, glabrous, scattered lenticellate. Leaves opposite or alternate; petiole 5-8 mm, tomentose; leaf blade blackish or yellowish brown when dried, narrowly elliptic, oblong, or ovate, 6-11 × 3-5 cm, leathery, abaxial surface persistently tomentose, adaxial surface rapidly glabrescent, lateral veins 4 or 5 pairs, adaxially slightly elevated, base cuneate to rounded, apex acute or obtuse. Subumbels solitary or 2-3(-5)-fascicled, with short rachis, sometimes at leafless nodes, 2-5-flowered; peduncle 2-4 mm; bracts triangular, ca. 1 mm. Pedicel 1-1.5 mm. Calyx ovoid, ca. 2 mm, limb annular, entire. Mature bud 1.2-1.8(-2.3) cm, tip ovoid, sometimes acute. Corolla reddish yellow, slightly curved to ± straight, tube inflated, lobes spatulate, 4-6 mm, slightly patent or reflexed. Filaments 1.5-3 mm; anthers ca. 1.5 mm. Stigma capitate. Fruiting pedicel 2-3 mm. Berry yellowish, ellipsoid, ca. 7 × 4 mm, scabrid, pilose. Fl. Aug-Nov, fr. Apr-May.
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