Trees to 13 m tall. Bark dark grayish, with irregular longitudinal fissures. Young branchlets puberulous to appressed hirsute near base. Winter buds yellowish brown hirsute. Petiole ca. 1 cm, adaxially puberulous; leaf blade elliptic, 11--18 X 3.2--5.6 cm, adaxially sometimes scattered long strigose, base rounded, apex acuminate, lateral veins 10--12 per side. Flowers not seen. Fruit on basal parts of young branchlets. Fruiting pedicel 1.6--2.5 cm, dirty yellow pubescent. Fruiting calyx ± appressed pubescent; lobes 4, broadly ovate, ca. 2 X 1.2--1.5 cm. Berries depressed globose, ca. 2.6 cm in diam., strigose, glabrescent. Fr. Oct.

* Thickets. Guizhou (Zhenfeng Xian).