Shrubs evergreen, to 2 m tall. Branchlets dark brown when old, initially densely gray tomentose, glabrous when old, with scattered lenticels; buds oblong, 6–8 mm; scales brown, glabrous. Petiole 0.8–1.5 cm, initially densely tomentose, subglabrous when old; leaf blade oblong, oblong-lanceolate, or oblong-oblanceolate, 10–15 × 3–4.5 cm, leathery, midvein robust, lateral veins ca. 30–34 pairs, raised, slender, abaxially sparsely gray tomentose along veins, adaxially initially pilose, glabrescent, base broadly cuneate to subrounded, margin sharply serrate, apex acute or shortly acuminate. Compound corymbs terminal, ca. 15 cm in diam., many flowered; rachis and branches densely tomentose. Pedicel 2–3 mm, glabrous. Hypanthium cupular, abaxially glabrous. Sepals ovate-triangular, shorter. Ovary 2-loculed, apex villous; styles 2. Immature fruit obovoid, 3–4 mm, glabrous. Fl. May–Jun, fr. Aug–Oct.

Slopes, forest margins; ca. 1300 m. SW Guizhou (Anlong Bouyeizu Miaozu Zizhixian).