Trees to 10 m tall, andromonoecious. Bark brown or grayish brown. Branchlets reddish green, glabrous; winter buds subglobose, outside glabrous. Leaves deciduous; petiole 7-12 cm, slender, pubescent or glabrescent; leaf blade abaxially pale green, adaxially dark green, 5-10 × 4-12 cm, papery, abaxially pubescent or glabrous, adaxially glabrous, primary veins (3-)5, reticulate veins conspicuous abaxially, usually 3-or 5-lobed; lobes basally truncate, margin entire, apex acute or caudate-acute. Inflorescence terminal, corymbose. Flowers yellow-green. Sepals 5, obovate, 2-2.5 mm. Petals 5, oblong-obovate, ca. 5 mm. Stamens 6-8. Disk nearly glabrous. Samara oblong, 1.2-3 cm including wings; nutlets convex, usually impressed on other side of one nutlet; wings 0.4-1 cm wide, spreading with acute to obtuse angle. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Jul-Sep.
Can be grown by cuttings, graftings or seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
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