Bracts and young shoots with stellate hairs. Branchlets terete, prominently lenticellate, grayish rusty tomentose. Petiole 3-9 mm; leaf blade obovate-elliptic, 6-9 X 2-4 cm, glandular, abaxially pilose, base cuneate, margin entire or sinuate-dentate. Cymes 7-flowered; involucral bracts spatulate-lanceolate, 8-15 X 2-4 mm, membranous, densely rusty stellate pubescent. Calyx ca. 5 mm, densely yellowish rusty stellate pubescent; lobes 5 or 6, ovate-triangular, ca. 1 mm. Corolla ca. 9 mm, tube slender, white ciliate; lobes 5 or 6, oblanceolate, ca. 4 mm. Stamens 5, exserted. Ovary ca. 1.2 mm, glabrous. Style ca. 4 mm. Fl. Mar-Apr.

* Mixed forests; 300-700m. Guangdong, Hainan.