Shrubs 0.5-1 m tall, young stems tomentose, becoming glabrous, hairs brown or reddish brown or gray, stellate, sometimes also some scattered verticillate hairs. Branches black, lenticellate. Leaves subopposite or alternate; petiole 6-12 mm, glabrous; leaf blade ovate, ovate-oblong, or elliptic, 5-8 × 3-4.5 cm, abaxial surface persistently tomentose, adaxial surface rapidly glabrescent, lateral veins 4 or 5 pairs, base rounded, apex obtuse. Subumbellate racemes solitary or 2-or 3-fascicled, axis short but distinct, sometimes at leafless nodes, 2-5-flowered; peduncle 1-3 mm, tomentose; bracts ovate, ca. 1 mm, apex acute. Pedicel 2-3 mm. Calyx ellipsoid, 2-3 mm, limb annular, minutely 4-toothed. Mature bud 2.2-2.8 cm, tip ellipsoid. Corolla red, slightly curved, pubescent with adpressed stellate hairs, basal part inflated, lobes lanceolate, 6-9 mm, reflexed. Filaments ca. 2 mm; anthers 3-4 mm, multilocellate. Style red; stigma cone-shaped. Berry greenish yellow, ellipsoid, 6-7 × 3-4 mm, granulose, pilose. Fl. Jun-Sep.
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