Shrubs 1-4 m tall. Branches spreading, shiny, yellow-brown, puberulent when young, glabrescent. Petiole 1-5 cm; leaf blade ovate, subrounded, or cordate, 7-15 X 4-10 cm, papery, base rounded to cordate, margin subentire to slightly dentate to subentire, apex acuminate to obtuse; veins 6 or 7 pairs, abaxially elevated, 3-veined near base. Inflorescences 3-4(-7) X 6-8 cm, puberulent; bracts lanceolate, ca. 3 mm. Calyx ca. 3 mm, puberulent; teeth 5, obtuse. Corolla greenish white, villous in throat. Stamens not exserted. Ovary flattened globose, glabrous. Style shorter than corolla. Fruit dark purple to black, obovate, tuberculate.

Allied to Premna crassa but differs in having calyces equally 5-dentate and corolla tubes slender and shorter than calyx.

* Mixed forests; 1700-2400 m. NW Yunnan