Habit: shrub

Plant Height (m): 1-3 m

Elevation (m): 400-850 m

Distribution: China: Guangxi, Hunan

Young Branch: pubescent, tenuous

Leaf upper surface: midrib hairy

Leaf texture: leathery

Leaf lower surface: glabrous, tuberculate

Leaf length (cm): 3.5-5.5 cm

Leaf width (cm): 1.2-1.7 cm

Leaf shape: lanceolate, narrowly lanceolate

Leaf margin: serrulate

Leaf apex: caudate

Leaf base: broadly-cuneate

Petiole length (mm): 2-3 mm

Petiole: pubescent

Flower: solitary, 2-5 flowers clustered

Flower position: axillary, subterminal

Pedicel length (cm): 0.2-0.3 cm

Bractlet number: 4-5

Bractlet position: covers the pedicel

Bractlet shape: broadly ovate, suborbicular

Branchlet length (mm): 1-2 mm

Bractlet hairiness: glabrous outside, pubescent inside, pubescent outside, margin ciliated

Sepal: leathery

Sepal number: 5

Sepal shape: broadly ovate, suborbicular, lower 1/2 part connate into cup-shaped

Sepal hairiness: glabrous outside, margin ciliated, pubescent inside, pubescent outside

Petal hairiness: pubescent outside

Filaments hairiness: upper part villose

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

Ovary: glabrous

Ovary locus: 3-locular

Style: 3-cleft

Fruit shape: orbicular

Fruit diameter (cm): 1.8 cm

Seed number per locule: 1, 2