Erect herbs to 1.5 m tall, sparingly pubescent with short, simple hairs. Leaves simple, subentire, ovate, 7-40 cm long, apically acuminate, basally obtuse or acuminate and narrowed into the petiole, membranous, glabrate. Inflorescences few-flowered axillary fascicles; peduncle wanting; pedicels 5 mm long. Flowers with calyx 2.5-3 mm long, glabrous, cupular, apically truncate, with five minute points, not splitting; corolla yellow waxy or shiny, glabrous outside, broadly campanulate, 3-6 mm long, 6 mm across, lobed 1/4 way down, the lobes recurved; filaments 2.5 mm long, each with 2 teeth or umbos just above the point of insertion, adnate to the corolla tube a short distance above the insertion; anthers deltoid-oblong, pale yellow, 1 mm long; ovary glabrous. Berry subglobose or ellipsoidal, red, shiny, juicy; calyx not accrescent; seeds pale yellow, discoid, favose, 1.7 mm across.

TAIPEI: Chihsingshan, Peng 9879; Wulai, Peng 10008. ILAN: Fushan Botanical Garden, Boufford 25099; Tayenshan, Kao 3227. TAOYUAN HSIEN: Lalashan, Peng 14619. HSINCHU: Wufeng, Tuchang to Kuanwu, Peng 9364. MIAOLI: Nanchuang, Liu 339. TAICHUNG: Fengyuan, Yang s. n. 1986; Hoping, Wushihkeng, Shen 218. NANTOU: Shenmu, Peng 10975 ; hsitou to Fenghuangshan, Peng 6983. CHIAYI: Alishan, Lu & Ou 1457, Fenchihu to Dadonshan, Lin 105. TAINAN: Kuandaoshin, non s. n. 1972. KAOHSIUNG: Liukuan, Li & Huang s. n. 1962; Taoyuan, Meishankou to Tienchih, Lin 75. PINGTUNG: Lanjenshi-Luliaoshi, Wang 5558; Tahanshan, Chaw 806. TAITUNG: Lutao Is., Peng 7616; Peinan, Kao 113. HUALIEN: Hoping logging track, Wang 8544. Shoufeng, Mukwanshan, Peng 7270.

Distributed in Indonesia, Japan including Ryukyu Islands, Korea, Philippines, Thailand, and Southern China. Taiwan, in forest or plantation margins, forest gaps, rocky creek banks, and shady seaside places, 0-2,000 m elevation, common.