Shrubs to 1.5 m tall. Bark ± cracked or creviced; branches green, turning black-purple in second year, angular, glabrous; leaf buds subglobose, small, tomentose. Leaves alternate; petiole ca. 2 mm, glabrous; leaf blade dull green adaxially, paler abaxially, ovate, elliptic, or oblong-elliptic, (1.5-)2-3.5 × 0.8-2 cm, membranous, abaxially pubescent, gradually glabrescent, adaxially glabrous, base cuneate to rounded or truncate, margin ± revolute, apex obtuse, acute, or shortly acuminate, sometimes retuse; lateral veins 5-10 pairs, sometimes purple, conspicuous abaxially. Inflorescences terminal, capitate, (1 or)2-5(-8)-flowered, peduncle 0.5-1.2 cm, glabrous. Calyx white or purple; tube 8-11 mm, exterior glabrous; lobes 4, ovate to orbicular, 4-5 × 4-5 mm, spreading to 1 cm in diam. overall, apex slightly acute. Stamens 8, lower whorl inserted at middle of calyx tube; anthers yellow, oblong-ovoid, 1-1.2 mm, included within calyx tube. Disk scales 1-3, linear, ca. 1/3 as long as ovary or slightly longer, apex 2-lobed or slightly retuse, rarely obtuse. Ovary ca. 3 mm, sessile, upper part pubescent; style short; stigma capitate. Drupe reddish, ovoid, ca. 8 mm. Fl. summer.
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