Habit: shrub

Plant Height (m): 1-4 m

Distribution: China: Fujian, Guangxi

Young Branch: glabrous, stramineous, tenuous

Leaf upper surface: midrib hairy

Leaf texture: leathery

Leaf lower surface: glabrous

Leaf length (cm): 3.5-7.5 cm

Leaf width (cm): 1.3-3 cm

Leaf shape: oblong-elliptic, oblong

Leaf margin: serrulate

Leaf apex: caudately acuminate, caudate

Leaf base: broadly-cuneate

Petiole length (mm): 2-4 mm

Petiole: pubescent

Flower: solitary, 2-5 flowers clustered

Flower position: axillary, subterminal

Flower diameter (cm): 3-3.5 cm

Pedicel length (cm): 0.3-0.8 cm

Pedicel hairiness: glabrous

Bractlet number: 4-5

Bractlet shape: linear-lanceolate

Branchlet length (mm): 2.5-5 mm

Bractlet hairiness: glabrous on both sides

Sepal: margin membranous, persistent

Sepal number: 5

Sepal shape: lanceolate

Sepal length (mm): 6-10 mm

Sepal hairiness: glabrous on both sides, margin ciliated

Petal number: 5

Petal color: white

Petal shape: obovate

Petal length (mm): 15-20 mm

Petal: basally slightly connate

Stamen length (mm): 13-18 mm

Filaments hairiness: glabrous

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

Ovary: glabrous

Ovary locus: 3-locular

Relative length of stamens and styles: equal

Style: 3-cleft