Celastrus yunnanensis H. Léveillé (1916), not P. yunnanensis W. Smith (1916), not P. yunnanensis Dop (1923).

Shrubs. Branchlets and petioles densely pubescent. Branchlets slender. Petiole terete, 2-6 mm; leaf blade lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 0.5-3.8 X 0.3-1.1 cm, papery, sparsely pubescent, base rounded, margin apically sparsely serrate, apex obtuse; veins 3 or 4 pairs, abaxially elevated. Inflorescences to 2.5 cm across, few to 25-flowered, densely pubescent, glandular; peduncle ca. 5 mm; bracts lanceolate, ca. 4 mm. Pedicel ca. 2 mm. Calyx tube ca. 2 mm, teeth 5, pubescent and glandular but more densely so outside. Corolla pinkish, ca. 6 mm, villous in throat, 2-lipped, lower lip concave, outside pubescent and glandular. Stamens slightly exserted. Style glabrous. Ovary with few hairs, glandular.

Allied to Premna steppicola but differs in having leaf blades lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, bracts lanceolate, and stamens exserted. * Valleys; ca. 400 m. Yunnan (Jinsha Jiang valley)