Shrubs evergreen, 1-4 m. Branchlets subterete, puberulent, sometimes densely so. Petiole 2-5 mm, puberulent; leaf blade ovate, ovate-elliptic, or suborbicular, 1.5-3 × 1.5-2 cm, leathery, glabrous, sometimes puberulent along midrib and adaxial surface rugose, base subrounded or cuneate, apex subacute to somewhat rounded; primary veins 3(or 4) on each side of midrib, usually obscure. Panicles terminal, spreading, 4.5-12 × 4-9 cm; rachis angular, particularly in fruit. Pedicel 0-2 mm. Calyx 1-1.5 mm. Corolla 4-6 mm; tube ca. as long as lobes. Stamens not exceeding corolla lobes; anthers 1-2 mm. Fruit black, obovoid, 6-9 × 3-5 mm, slightly curved. Fl. Jun-Aug, fr. Aug-Oct.

* Under woods in ravines, thickets at mountaintop, along rivers; 300-2500 m. Gansu, Hubei, Shaanxi, Sichuan