Shrubs or small trees, reddish stellate and dendroid tomentose on branchlets, petioles, and inflorescence rachis. Branchlets angular, densely villous when young, glabrescent. Petiole canaliculate, 0.8-1 cm; leaf blade obovate to oblanceolate, 12-19 × 4.5-5.5 cm, papery, smooth, glabrous adaxially, reddish stellate abaxially, inconspicuously pellucid punctate, base cuneate, margin entire and revolute at least basally, apex short acuminate, acumen 5-10 mm; lateral veins 15-20 on each side of midrib, marginal vein present. Inflorescences terminal on specialized lateral branches, paniculate, 6-7 cm, branches umbellate, rachis flexuous. Flowers unknown. Pedicel 3-5 cm, recurved, minutely stellate or puberulent. Fruiting calyx somewhat united at base, glabrescent, lobes broadly ovate, to 1 mm, puberulent inside, margin ciliate, apex acute. Fruit (immature) globose, glabrous; ovules numerous, multiseriate. Fl. Apr.

* Evergreen broad-leaved forests, hillsides; 200-300 m. Yunnan