Shrubs deciduous, to 4 m tall. Branchlets brown to dark reddish brown, terete, initially yellow strigose, glabrescent. Petiole (2–)3–4 mm, pilose, glabrate; stipules lanceolate, 2–3 mm, pilose; leaf blade bright green adaxially, elliptic-ovate, rarely rhombic-ovate, (1–)2.5–3.5 × (0.8–)1–1.6 cm, subleathery, lateral veins 4 or 5 pairs, distinctly raised abaxially and impressed adaxially, abaxially yellowish gray tomentose, adaxially glabrous, rugose, base broadly cuneate to rounded, apex acuminate to acute. Corymbs 1.5–2.5 cm, 3–6-flowered; rachis and pedicels glabrous; bracts linear or linear-lanceolate. Pedicel 5–6 mm. Petals pink. Fruit purplish black, subglobose, 5–7 mm in diam., glabrous, pyrenes (2–)5. Fl. May–Jun, fr. Sep–Oct.

Waste places, forest margins; 2600--3000 m. W Sichuan.