Shrubs. Branchlets and petioles tomentose or not, with dense subulate scales, and proximally with some unguiculate hairs, scales truncate or 2-fid at apex. Leaf blade narrowly to broadly elliptic-obovate, subulate scaly on veins abaxially, base obtuse to rounded. Inflorescences ca. 3 cm, slender, with 1 bract at base of each branch; bract broadly ovate, large, 5-9 mm. Petals broadly elliptic to suborbicular. Fl. Sep-Oct, fr. Oct-Nov.

● Sparse mountain forests, valleys; 1200-1400 m. S Yunnan.