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Description from Flora of China Shrubs evergreen, erect or occasionally scandent, 1-4 m tall or trees 3-17 m tall, sometimes epiphytic. Twigs narrowly angled, glabrous or pubescent; bud scales conspicuous, caducous. Leaves scattered; petiole 5-14 mm, glabrous to densely pubescent; leaf blade elliptic, oblong, oblong-lanceolate, or ovate, 4.5-13(-17) - 2-5.5(-8) cm, leathery to thickly leathery, abaxially sparsely appressed-glandular hairy, adaxially glabrous or pubescent on midvein, rarely densely dark punctate, secondary veins 3-9 pairs, conspicuous adaxially, sometimes conspicuous abaxially, fine veins inconspicuous or raised adaxially, base cuneate to obtuse, margin plane, entire, with 1 basal gland per side, apex caudate-acuminate. Inflorescences racemose, 3-7 cm, glabrous, 5-18-flowered; bracts caducous, ovate, 7-10 mm. Pedicel 5-8 mm. Hypanthium 1.2-1.5 mm, glabrous; calyx lobes triangular or lanceolate, 1-2.5 mm, glabrous or with hairs. Corolla virescent, purplish, or pinkish, broadly campanulate, ca. 6 mm, glabrous; lobes triangular, ca. 2 mm. Filaments ca. 1 mm, puberulous; anthers 3-3.5 mm, with 2 spreading spurs; tubules 1-2 as long as thecae. Berry 10-pseudoloculed, dark purple with a bloom, 4-12 mm in diam. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Sep-Dec. Forests, forest margins, sometimes epiphytic on trees, thickets, shrubby slopes, exposed rocky slopes, high mountains, calcareous mountains; (700-)1400-2700(-3100) m. Guangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan, Taiwan, Xizang, Yunnan [Bhutan, NE India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sikkim, Vietnam].