Description from Flora of China Plants 30-100 cm tall. Branches
spreading, pubescent when young. Leaves rather remote; petiole
1-3.5 cm, pubescent; leaf blade ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 4-12
× 1.5-4 cm, abaxially pubescent along midvein, adaxially
glabrous, base attenuate, margin slightly serrulate, apex long
acuminate. Racemes 4-10 cm (including peduncle), pubescent.
Pedicel slen-der, with a bract and a pair of bracteoles. Tepals
white or pink, elliptic or obovate-oblong, 2-2.5 mm, in fruit
3-3.5 mm, green, reflexed. Stamens shorter than and alternate
with tepals. Berry globose or pyriform, 3-4 mm. Seeds ca. 2 mm.
2n = 126. This species is cultivated as an ornamental.
Cultivated, possibly escaped as a weed around houses or rubbish
heaps. Fujian (Fuzhou), Guangdong (Guangzhou), Zhejiang
(Hangzhou) [probably native to tropical America; now widespread
in tropics and subtropics].