Small trees, 5-10 m tall. Young branchlets yellow-brown, ± angled, striate, white verruculose, sparsely yellow-brown pubescent; old branchlets gray-brown, terete. Terminal buds small, densely yellow-brown puberulent. Leaves alternate or subopposite; petiole 5-13 mm, always white verruculose, ± pubescent; leaf blade abaxially red-brown when dry, adaxially green-brown or dark purple, oblong to elliptic, 8-13 × 2.5-5 cm, submembranous, ± sparsely pubescent but glabrate on both surfaces when old, abaxially densely and conspicuously white glandular-punctate, midrib adaxially plane or slightly elevated, lateral veins 8-10 pairs, slender, conspicuous on both surfaces, veins conspicuous on both surfaces, base cuneate or broadly cuneate, apex acuminate, always oblique. Cymose panicles axillary, ca. 1.5 cm; rachises yellow-brown pubescent. Pedicels yellow-brown pubescent. Flowers greenish. Perianth segments subequal, oblong, ca. 3.5 × 1-1.2 mm. Fruits yellow-brown, ovoid, ca. 3.3 × 2.7 cm, glabrous, surface uneven, base abruptly narrowed, apex obtuse; fruiting pedicels ca. 2 mm in diam. Fl. May, fr. Oct.

● Sparse or dense forests; 1000-1500 m. SE Yunnan (Pingbian).