Shrubs or herbs, erect, large, perhaps annual, sparsely pubescent, glabrescent; stems and branches thick. Leaves ovate or broadly elliptic, 3-14 cm long, 2-6 cm wide, apically short acuminate, basally rounded or broadly cuneate, decurrent, sometimes oblique, mostly with a few coarse teeth, glabrate; petiole 1-3 cm long. Pedicel 5-14 mm long. Flowers with calyx broadly campanulate, 2-3 mm long, basally rounded, the lobes deltoid, 0.5 mm long, ciliate, prickly outside; corolla white with 5, 2-part markings inside, campanulate-rotate, 7 mm long, the lobes ovate, 2-3.5 mm long, slightly longer than the tube, spreading ciliolate, filaments 5-6 mm, anther green, ovoid, 4 mm long, included or slightly exserted. Berry orange, globose, 4-5 mm across, much smaller than fruiting calyx, fruiting pedicel 1.5-1.8 cm long, nodding; fruiting calyx much inflated, globose-ovoid, 1.8-2.5 cm long, with longitudinal winglike ribs and prominent triangular teeth on the ribs; seeds pale yellow, discoid, 1 mm across.

NANTOU: Kuantaochi, Liu & Ou 2105.

Distributed in Japan and Taiwan. Recorded only once from Taiwan (as P. linii).