Trees to 7 m tall, andromonoecious. Branchlets smooth, green and glabrous, greenish brown or olive-brown in second year and ± with grayish white waxy bloom; winter buds ovoid. Leaves deciduous; petiole 2.5-6 cm, glabrous; leaf blade adaxially dark yellowish green, 5-8 × 5-9 cm, base truncate or subcordate with a broad sinus, abaxially lustrous, reticulate and glabrous with exception of axillary tufts of pale hairs, 5-lobed, rarely 3-or 4-lobed in young shoots; lobes triangular-ovate, margin sharply serrulate, apex acuminate. Inflorescence corymbose, terminal on a 2-leaved branchlet. Sepals 5, purplish, elliptic-ovate, ca. 2 mm, margin denticulate. Petals 5, white, ovate or broadly ovate-obtuse. Stamens 8, longer than petals, inserted inside disk. Ovary sparsely villous, with long hairs, minute, villous, and rudimentary in staminate flowers; styles 2, ca. 2 mm. Samaras glabrous; nutlets brown, convex, ca. 6 × 5 mm, distinctly veined; wings spreading nearly horizontally, wing including nutlet 2.5-3.5 × ca. 1 cm. Fl. May, fr. Sep.
Can be grown by cuttings, graftings or seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
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