Plant: shrub, 6-12 dm, stiff, puberulent; stem: slender, old bark shredding Leaves: simple, opposite, deciduous, short-petioled; blade 8-20 mm, elliptic to round, paler and more prominently veined below INFLORESCENCE: flowers 1-2 in axils; flower subtended by 2 fused bractlets Flowers: ± radial; hypanthium ± spheric; calyx with 5-toothed, persistent limb; calyx limb flaring, lobes deep, irregular, margin generally transparent; corolla 6-10 mm, narrowly bell-shaped, pink or white, middle 1/3 of tube lightly hairy, upper 1/3 glabrous, lobes ± erect, ± 1/5-1/3 corolla length; nectaries below all 5 lobes; style glabrous Fruit: berry-like, generally white, 8-12 mm, ovoid; Seeds 4-6 mm, 2 (1 per lateral ovary chamber), ± oblong, planoconvex Misc: Slopes, ridges, open places in forest; 1100-3300 m.