Shrubs evergreen, terrestrial or epiphytic, ca. 0.5 m tall. Twigs rounded, densely shortly setose, glabrescent; persistent bud scales few, oblong-lanceolate. Leaves 5–8-pseudoverticillate; petiole 1–4 mm; leaf blade oblong-lanceolate, 3.5–5 × 0.9–1.4 cm, papery, glabrous, secondary veins 7–11 pairs, spreading, secondary and fine veins raised on both surfaces, base cuneate or obtuse to narrowly rounded, margin plane, sparsely serrate, apex narrowly acute to acuminate to 1 cm. Inflorescences racemose or corymbose-racemose, 1.5–6 cm, glabrous or sparsely glandular hairy, with persistent bud scales, many flowered; bracts caducous, narrowly triangular, ca. 3 mm. Pedicel 5–9 mm, glabrous, thickened upwards. Hypanthium 1–1.5 mm, glabrous; calyx lobes triangular, ca. 1 mm. Corolla greenish yellow, urceolate, 4–6 mm, glabrous; lobes ca. 0.6 mm. Filaments 1–2 mm, glabrous; anthers ca. 4 mm, without spurs; tubules ca. as long as thecae. Berry 10-pseudoloculed (from ovary). Fl. Apr.
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A small shrub that can grow attached to trees. It grows 50 cm tall. The leaves are in a ring of 5-8. The leaf blades are oblong to sword shaped and 4-5 cm long by 1-1.5 cm wide. The leaf blades are wedge shaped at the base. The flowers are in groups 2-6 cm long. The flowers are greenish yellow. The fruit is a berry that has about 10 chambers.
It is a subtropical plant. It grows in evergreen forests between 2,300-2,400 m above sea level in Tibet. In Sikkim it grows between 1,200-1,800 m above sea level. In the Himalayas in India it grows between 1,200-2,400 m above sea level.
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Hill forests of the eastern Himalayas, often epiphytic on trees; at elevations from 1,200-2,400 metres.
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