Shrubs or small trees, ca. 4 m high, pubescent. Branchlets light purple, slender. Petiole 2-3 cm; leaf blade suborbicular, 7-13 × 5-11 cm, papery, both surfaces pubescent, palmately 5-veined, lateral veins 4 or 5, more conspicuous abaxially, base subrounded, often 3-, rarely 5-lobed, apex acuminate. Inflorescences axillary, 7-15-flowered; peduncle 0.8-1.2 cm. Pedicel 1-3 mm. Calyx funnelform; lobes 9, dentiform. Petals 6-10, ca. 7 mm. Stamens 6-?10, slightly shorter than petals; filaments pubescent inside, slight adnate to petals at base. Disk slightly lobed. Style loosely pubescent; stigma capitate. Drupe ellipsoid, ca. 1 cm, pubescent; pedicel ca. 5 mm. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Aug-Sep.

● Forests; ca. 1400 m. C Yunnan.