Inflorescences often appearing before the leaves are fully expanded, short, 0.8–3 cm long, usually 7–13-flowered, spreading setulose pubescent; peduncle short or suppressed, up to 5(10) mm long; pedicels 0.5–2 mm long; bracts 1 × 1 mm, ovate.
Corolla obtuse in bud; green or yellow; tube 3–3.5 mm long, broadly cylindrical, with rather long spreading seta-like hairs save at the base of tube; lobes 2.5–5 × 1.5–2 mm, triangular.
Shrub 1.8–3 m tall; stems mostly slender, with grey or dark reddish-brown bark, at first with rather long spreading pubescence, later glabrescent or glabrous; branches often short.
Calyx tube 1.5 mm long, broadly obconic, densely spreading pubescent; lobes (0.5)1.2–3.0 × 0.5–1.3 mm, triangular or narrowly oblong.
Pollen presenter 1.2 mm long, 5-lobed.
Fruits 17(22) mm in diameter.
Style exserted (1)2–3 mm.