Shrubs ca. 1 m tall. Flowering branchlets grayish brown or yellow-brown, angular, glabrous. Petiole 5-7 mm; leaf blade abaxially yellow-green, adaxially glossy, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 3-5.5 × 2-3 cm, leathery, abaxially sparsely 5-7-rayed stellate hairy, adaxially glabrous or sparsely 4- or 5-rayed stellate hairy, veins in 4-6 pairs, base rounded or broadly cuneate, margin thorny serrate and slightly revolute, apex acuminate or caudate. Flowers unknown. Fruiting cymes ca. 3 × 2 cm, 9-18-fruited. Capsule globose, ca. 4 mm, with persistent, incurved or erect calyx lobes; pedicel 1-1.5 cm. Fr. Jun.

* Thickets, mountain slopes, calcareous soils; ca. 600 m. E Sichuan (Wuxi Xian).