Shrubs scandent. Branchlets red-brown, smooth, glabrous. Petiole 1-2.5 cm, glabrous; leaf blade abaxially grayish green, adaxially green, ovate-elliptic or ovate-oblong, 5-9 × 3-5.5 cm, thinly papery, abaxially grayish white puberulent on vein axils, lateral veins 8-13 pairs, base rounded, apex obtuse or rounded. Flowers yellow-green, glabrous, in terminal, narrow, cymose panicles; rachis glabrous. Pedicel 2-3 mm. Drupe red when young, turning black at maturity, cylindrical, 5-7 mm, ca. 3 mm in diam., basally with persistent disk-shaped remnants of calyx tube and disk; fruiting pedicel ca. 3 mm, glabrous. Fl. Jun-Aug, fr. May-Jun.

● Mixed mountain forests; middle elevations. S Anhui (Huang Shan), N Zhejiang (Tianmu Shan).