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Shrubs evergreen, ca. 2 m. Branchlets terete, minutely puberulent. Petiole 0-2 mm; leaf blade elliptic-oblong or ovate, 1-2 × 0.8-1.2 cm, leathery, glabrous except for midrib sometimes puberulent and brown glandular dotted, base cuneate to subrounded, apex obtuse or retuse, occasionally acute; primary veins 2 or 3 on each side of midrib, obscure or adaxially slightly raised. Panicles terminal, ca. 5 × 2 cm. Pedicel 0.5-1.5 mm, glabrous. Calyx ca. 1.5 mm, glabrous; Corolla 6-7 mm; tube ca. as long as lobes. Stamens reaching apex of corolla lobes. Fruit subglobose, ca. 5 mm in diam. Fl. Aug, fr. Oct.

Flood plains. Hong Kong [Vietnam]