Shrubs 0.5-1 m tall, young stems, leaves, petiole, inflorescences, and corollas tomentose, hairs a mixture of reddish brown or yellowish brown verticillate hairs and paler stellate hairs. Branches blackish, glabrous, scattered lenticellate. Leaves opposite or subopposite; petiole 5-10 mm; leaf blade elliptic or ovate-oblong, 4.5-8 × 2-3.5 cm, leathery, abaxial surface persistently tomentose, adaxial surface rapidly glabrescent, lateral veins 4 or 5 pairs, adaxially prominent, base broadly cuneate to rounded, margin entire and recurved, apex obtuse. Umbels solitary or 2 together, sometimes at leafless nodes, 2-or 3-flowered; peduncle 1-2 mm; bracts triangular, ca. 1 mm. Pedicel ca. 1 mm. Calyx ovoid, 2-2.5 mm, limb annular. Mature bud 1.2-1.8 cm, tip ovoid. Corolla reddish brown, slightly curved, densely pilose with dense verticillate hairs, basal part inflated, lobes spatulate, 5-7 mm, reflexed. Filaments ca. 3.5 mm; anthers ca. 1.5 mm. Stigma capitate. Berry orange, ellipsoid, ca. 8 × 5 mm, granulose, pilose or becoming glabrous. Fl. and fr. Jul-Nov.
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A woody parasitic shrub. It is 0.5-1 m high. The branches are stout. They are round in cross section. There are leans shaped corky spots on the bark. The bark is dark brown. Young parts are softly hairy. The leaves have stalks. The leaves are 4-7.5 cm long by 1.5-4 cm wide. They are oval to sword shaped. They are leathery and brown and hairy underneath. The base is rounded. The flowers are reddish. They occur in the axils of leaves. The fruit is oval and orange. It grows on oaks.
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