Shrubs to 1.5 m tall. Branches striped, brown, slender, scattered puberulous, glabrescent; leaf buds subglobose, white pubescent. Leaves alternate; petiole short, ca. 1 mm; leaf blade green adaxially, slightly grayish white abaxially, broadly elliptic to obovate, 2-5 × 1-2.5 cm, membranous, base cuneate, apex rounded, obtuse, or retuse; midrib conspicuous on both surfaces; lateral veins tenuous, slightly prominent abaxially. Inflorescences terminal on young branches, clustered, 2-4-flowered; peduncle ca. 0.5 cm. Calyx pale green, ca. 12 mm, 8-veined, exterior puberulous; lobes 4, oblong, margin slightly erose. Stamens 8, lower whorl inserted at middle of calyx tube, upper whorl at throat. Disk scales 2, linear, or one of them broader, ca. 1/2 as long as ovary. Ovary clavate, stipitate, appressed pubescent, more densely so at apex; style short, hidden by hairs; stigma globose. Fruit not seen. Fl. summer.
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