Shrubs, deciduous, erect with branchlets spreading. New branches and buds silvery scaly. Petiole 3-8 mm; leaf blade obovate, 2.2-5.5 cm long, 1-2 cm wide, papery, abaxially densely white scaly, adaxially sparsely scaly when young, lateral veins 5-8 per side of midrib, base cuneate, apex acute to obtuse. Flowers 1-5-fasciculate in axils of both long and short shoots; pedicel 3-6 mm, to 1.2 cm in fruit. Flowers silvery white. Calyx tube funnel-shaped, 5-7 mm, slender; lobes triangular-ovate, 2.8-3 mm. Filaments ca. 0.7 mm; anthers elliptic, 1.8-2 mm. Style 6-7 mm, with stellate hairs; stigma ca. 2.2 mm. Drupe red, nearly globose, 8-9 mm. Seed ca. 7 mm.