Trees to 3 m tall. Buds and young branchlets tomentose; old branchlets glabrous. Petiole 1.5--2 cm, tomentose; leaf blade oblong to oblong-elliptic, 7--10 X 2.5--4 cm, thickly papery, abaxially woolly villous, base broadly cuneate, margin entire, apex shortly acuminate to acute, lateral veins 7 or 8 pairs. Inflorescences a glomerule; bracts and bractlets persistent, spathulate to orbicular, ca. 2 mm, brown tomentose. Ovary ca. 1 mm, glabrous. Calyx brown tomentose, lobes orbicular. Corolla yellow, ca. 4 mm. Stamens ca. 40. Disc annular, glabrous. Drupes ellipsoid, ca. 1 cm. Fl. Jun, fr. Aug.

* Mixed forests; ca. 900 m. Fujian.