Habit: shrub

Plant Height (m): 1-3 m

Elevation (m): 600-800 m

Distribution: China: Guangxi, Guizhou

Young Branch: glabrous, tenuous

Leaf upper surface: glabrous

Leaf texture: leathery

Leaf lower surface: glabrous, glandular

Leaf length (cm): 7.5-11.5 cm

Leaf width (cm): 3-5 cm

Leaf shape: oblong-elliptic, elliptic

Leaf margin: serrulate

Leaf apex: acuminate

Leaf base: cuneate

Lateral vein: pairs: 6-7

Petiole length (mm): 7-12 mm

Petiole: glabrous

Flower: solitary

Flower position: subterminal

Flower diameter (cm): 3-3.5 cm

Bract: absent

Pedicel: present

Pedicel length (cm): 0.6-1 cm

Bractlet number: 5-6

Bractlet: persistent

Bractlet shape: ovate, semiorbicular

Branchlet length (mm): 0.5-2 mm

Bractlet hairiness: glabrous outside, pubescent inside, margin ciliated

Sepal: leathery

Sepal number: 5

Sepal shape: ovate, suborbicular

Sepal length (mm): 5 mm

Sepal hairiness: glabrous outside, margin ciliated, pubescent inside

Petal number: 7-9

Petal color: white, yellow

Petal shape: obovate, broadly elliptic

Petal apex: retuse, truncate

Petal length (mm): 10-12 mm

Petal width (mm): 8-10 mm

Stamen length (mm): 15 mm

Filaments hairiness: glabrous

Filaments: lower half of outer filaments connate, not forming a tube

Ovary: glabrous

Ovary shape: orbicular

Ovary locus: 3-locular

Style number: 3

Style: free, 3-cleft

Fruit shape: oblate

Fruit height (cm): 1.5 cm

Fruit diameter (cm): 3-3.5 cm

Pericarp: squarrose

Seed number per locule: 2

Seed shape: semiorbicular

Seed color: brown

Seed hairiness: villous