Shrubs to 1 m tall. Branches very slender, turning brownish striate, long strigose; leaf buds ovoid, white pubescent or tomentose. Leaves opposite or subopposite, sometimes in whorls of 3; petiole ca. 1 mm; leaf blade green adaxially, grayish green abaxially, elliptic or ovate-orbicular to oblong, 1.5-5 × 0.8-2.8 cm, membranous, both surfaces sparsely strigose, glabrescent, base broadly cuneate to ± rounded, apex obtuse; lateral veins 5 or 6 pairs, slender. Inflorescences terminal, racemose, sometimes in small panicles; peduncle short. Calyx yellow; tube broadly cylindric, ca. 10 mm, exterior appressed hairy; lobes 4, elliptic, ca. 2 mm, reticulate veins obvious. Stamens 8, inserted in calyx tube. Disk scales 2, one linear and one oblong. Ovary stipitate, apex pubescent; style short; stigma capitate. Fruit not seen. Fl. autumn.
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