Shrubs ca. 1.5 m tall. Flowering branchlets brown, 4-9 cm, ca. 6-leaved, sparsely stellate hairy. Petiole 1-2 mm; leaf blade ovate- or elliptic-lanceolate, 1.5-4.5 × 0.8-1.5 cm, papery, abaxially 5- or 6-rayed stellate hairy, adaxially 4- or 5-rayed stellate hairy, base rounded or subtruncate, margin serrulate, apex acuminate. Corymbose cymes 3-5 cm in diam., 11-21-flowered; pedicels robust, 0.8-1.2 cm. Calyx tube ca. 3 × 3.5 mm; lobes ovate-deltoid, shorter than tube. Petals imbricate, pink, broadly obovate or suborbicular, ca. 0.7 × 1.5 cm. Outer stamens 4-5 mm; filaments 2-dentate at apex, teeth ± level with or exceeding anthers; anthers stalked, globose. Inner stamens shorter than outer ones; filaments obtuse at apex; anthers borne at middle of filaments abaxially. Styles 3, subequaling stamens. Capsule unknown. Fl. Jul.

* Mixed forest margins; ca. 3000 m. Sichuan.