Shrubs 1-2 m tall. Flowering branchlets red-brown, 6-12 cm, 4-6-leaved, sparsely stellate hairy. Petiole 3-6 mm; leaf blade ovate-lanceolate or broadly lanceolate, 5-10 × 2.5-5.5 cm, papery, abaxially densely 5-8-rayed stellate hairy, hairs with long central rays, adaxially 4- or 5(or 6)-rayed stellate hairy, hairs usually with long central rays, indumentum continuous, base broadly cuneate or subrounded, margin serrulate, apex acute or acuminate. Inflorescences corymbose, 5-8 cm in diam., 60-100-flowered; pedicels ca. 1 mm. Calyx tube ca. 3.5 × 3 mm; lobes ovate or broadly so, shorter than tube. Petals imbricate, pink, broadly obovate, ca. 4.5 × 4 mm. Stamens 4-5 mm; filaments subulate, toothless; anthers shortly stalked. Styles 3, subequaling stamens. Capsule hemispheric, ca. 5 mm in diam. Fl. Apr-Aug.

* Thickets, cliffs, mountain slopes; 1000-1800 m. W Hubei (Xingshan Xian).