Subshrubs to shrubs, 60-100 cm tall. Branchlets gray-yellow, terete, with small lenticels, stellate tomentose. Petiole 4-6 mm; leaf blade elliptic to ovate-elliptic, 5-8(-13) X 2.5-3.5(-5.5) cm, abaxially stellate tomentose, adaxially puberulent, base cuneate, margin serrate, apex acute to acuminate. Cymes ca. 1 cm across; peduncle 4-6 mm; bracts small. Calyx campanulate, stellate tomentose; teeth 4, linear-lanceolate, 1-1.5 mm. Corolla pinkish, ca. 4 mm, sparsely stellate tomentose; lobes 4, oblong. Filaments 4-5 mm; anthers ca. 1.2 mm. Ovary slightly puberulent. Style ca. 6 mm. Fl. late spring to summer.

* Usually along rivers; 100-400 m. Guangdong (Ruyan Xian), Jiangxi (Shangrao Xian).