It fruits in June.
It grows at altitudes of 2,900-3,380 meters.
The type specimen was collected from Zhaotong, Yunnan.
It is an evergreen dwarf shrub, approximately 30 cm tall, with slender branches densely covered with grayish scales. Leaf buds are scale-like and shed. Leaves are usually clustered at the tips of branches, narrowly elliptic, oblong, or lanceolate, 6-12 mm long and 2.5-5 mm wide, blunt or rounded at the tip, with short pointed tips, and blunt or wedge-shaped bases. Upper leaf surfaces are dark grayish-green, covered with adjacent light-colored scales, while lower surfaces are light yellow and densely covered with overlapping light yellow-brown scales. Leaf stalks are 1-1.5 mm long, covered with light-colored scales, and hairless.