Shrubs to 1 m tall. Branches turning brownish purple in second year, terete, slender, densely white strigose; leaf buds subglobose, white pubescent. Leaves subopposite, rarely alternate or opposite; petiole ca. 1 mm, densely pubescent; leaf blade elliptic or ovate-elliptic, 1.5-3 × 1.2-2 cm, thinly papery, membranous when dried, both surfaces appressed pubescent, base broadly cuneate to ± rounded, apex acute; lateral veins 3 or 4 per side, slender. Inflorescences terminal and subterminal, fasciculate, forming a thyrse, fascicles 1-6-flowered. Pedicel ca. 0.3 mm. Calyx yellowish green; tube 5-7 mm, exterior densely appressed pilose; lobes 4, oblong-ovate, ca. 1.5 mm, outside pilose. Stamens 8, lower whorl inserted above middle of calyx tube, upper whorl at throat; filaments to 0.2 mm; anthers oblong. Disk scale very broadly ovate in outline, ± amplexicaul, irregularly deeply 7-10-lobed. Ovary narrowly ovoid, ca. 2.5 mm, densely appressed hirsute; style very short. Immature drupe pubescent. Fl. Aug.
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