Shrubs to 2.5 m tall. Branchlets slightly pubescent when young, glabrescent; buds ovoid or trigonous-ovoid, slightly pubescent on scale margins. Leaves solitary at axils on current year’s growth, clustered on older branchlets; leaf blade narrowly lanceolate or oblanceolate, rarely long elliptic, 2-8 cm long, 1.5-2.5 cm wide, glabrous on both surfaces, base cuneate, apex acute or apiculate. Panicles 5-8 cm long, 4-6 cm wide; peduncle densely pubescent; bracts 2-3 mm, glabrous on both surfaces, apex acuminate. Flowers ca. 8 mm in diameter; pedicel 3-5 mm, pubescent. Hypanthium pubescent abaxially. Sepals broadly triangular, ca. 1.5 mm, pubescent on both surfaces. Petals white, broadly obovate, base cuneate, apex rounded. Carpels glabrous. Follicles ca. 4 mm; fruiting pedicel 3-5 mm, pubescent.