Shrubs 1-2.5 m tall. Branchlets softly yellow-brown tomentose. Petiole 3-5 mm, softly yellow-brown tomentose; leaf blade ovate-elliptic, thinly leathery, 13-16 × 6-9 cm, densely softly yellow-brown tomentose abaxially, stellate but glabrescent and hairy only on veins adaxially, lateral basal veins to 2/3 as long as blade, 8-15 mm from margin, each with secondary veins 6-8, lateral veins 4-5 pairs in distal 1/2, base rounded or slightly cordate, slightly oblique, margin dentate (teeth alternately small and large, triangular, 1-2.5 mm), apex acuminate. Cymes 1 or 2 in axils of leaves, 2-3 cm; peduncle 1-1.7 cm. Pedicel 6-8 mm. Bracts lanceolate, 6-8 mm, hairy. Sepals narrowly lanceolate, 7-8 × 1-1.5 mm, abaxially tomentose, adaxially white and glabrous. Petals 3-4 mm. Stamens 5-6 mm. Ovary tomentose; style glabrous. Drupe 2-lobed, lobes globose.

● Open forests; 800-1200 m. Yunnan.