Young branchlets glabrescent. Peduncle of male inflorescences, pedicels, corolla limbs inside, and abaxial surface of bracts dirty yellow puberulous. Male inflorescences cymose, 3-flowered. Male flower calyx 4-parted, smaller than female calyx, brown strigose; corolla urnlike-tubular, 6 mm, outside densely yellowish brown puberulous; stamens 16; rudimentary ovary densely rusty bearded at apex. Fruiting peduncle 5--8(--12) mm, with subapical bract scars; pedicel 3--4 mm, sometimes recurved, bracteate near base; bracts linear, 3--4.5 mm. Infructescences 1-fruited. Fl. Mar-Apr.

* SE Yunnan.