Shrubs or small trees, deciduous, to 4 m tall. Young branches glabrous or subglabrous. Petiole 4-6 mm, glabrous or pilose; leaf blade subelliptic, rarely obovate-elliptic or obovate-oblong, 7-15 × 3-5.5 cm, both surfaces glabrous or abaxially pilose on veins, lateral veins 7-10 pairs, base subrounded, slightly oblique, margin shallowly serrate, apex caudate-acuminate. Flowers yellow-green, 6-10 cm, glabrous, in axillary or terminal cymes; peduncles 3-5 mm. Pedicel 2-3 mm. Drupe yellow-green, turning black or purple-black at maturity, subcylindric, 8-9 mm, 4-5 mm in diam.; fruiting pedicel ca. 4 mm. Fl. May-Jun, fr. Jul-Aug.

● Mixed forests on slopes, field margins, roadsides. NE Guangdong.