Small trees, 3-6 m tall. Young branchlets densely golden yellow villous. Leaves alternate or 3-5 clustered toward apex of branchlet; petiole 1-2 cm, puberulent; leaf blade elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate, 7.5-13.5 × 2.5-4.5 cm, glaucous and densely golden yellow villous abaxially, glabrous or along veins golden yellow villous adaxially, triplinerved, lateral veins 1 pair, arising 3-5 mm from base, obliquely spreading toward leaf apex, with 6-9 curved veinlets at one side near margin, base acute, apex caudate-acuminate with acumen. Fruiting inflorescence umbellate, axillary, with (3-)6-8 fruits. Fruit ovoid, ca. 9 × 5 mm, abruptly acute at apex; fruiting pedicel ca. 7 mm, slightly thickened at apex, densely yellow villous. Fr. Jun.

● Evergreen broad-leaved forests in valleys; 2500-3000 m. W Yunnan.