Subshrubs 1-3 m tall. Branchlets, petioles, and veins crisped pubescent and pellucid villous. Petiole ca. 1.3 cm; leaf blade elliptic-oblong to obovate-elliptic, 7-16 × 2.5-7 cm, papery, abaxially sparsely villous, adaxially appressed hirsute, secondary veins 6-9 on both sides of midvein. Inflorescence a corymbose cyme, 5-10 × 3-5 cm; peduncle 1-2 cm. Flower buds oblong-obovoid, ca. 5 mm; pedicel ca. 4 mm. Calyx tube sparsely villous; lobes 5 or 6, obtusely deltoid, ca. 1 mm, glabrous. Petals 5 or 6, blue-white, broadly lanceolate to oblong-ovate, 5-6 × 1.5-2 mm, slightly fleshy, glabrous on both surfaces, margin recurved at maturity, apex acute. Stamens 10-12; filaments filiform, ca. 5 mm; anthers dimorphic: reflexed oblong-ellipsoid and erect ovoid, sparsely villous. Ovary subinferior. Styles 4(-6), clavate, ca. 3.5 mm; stigmas oblong, oblique. Berry subglobose, ca. 5 mm, glabrous or sparsely villous. Seeds brownish, pyriform, ca. 0.8 mm. Fl. Mar-May, fr. Sep-Oct.

* Forests in valleys; 400-800 m. Guangxi, Guizhou.