Shrubs ca. 3 m, deciduous. Branchlets and petiole sparsely puberulent, glabrescent. Petiole 0.5-1.2 cm; leaf blade oblong- lanceolate to elliptic, 2.5-12 × 1.5-5.5 cm, papery, glabrous or abaxially villous, base cuneate, apex acute to acuminate. Panicles terminal, spreading, 10-18 × 8-16 cm; rachis pubescent. Flowers sessile or nearly so. Calyx ca. 2 mm, glabrous. Corolla salverform, 7-10 mm; tube 1.5-2 × as long as lobes. Stamens not exceeding corolla lobes; anthers ca. 2 mm. Fruit oblong-ellipsoid, ca. 10 × 5 mm. Fr. Sep.

* Along streams; ca. 1300 m. W Hubei