Trees to 6 m tall. Bark grayish. Branchlets purplish brown, densely yellowish tomentose. Leaves persistent; petiole ca. 2.5 cm; leaf blade adaxially yellow-green, ovate, oblong-ovate, or obovate, 5-8 × 2.5-4 cm, leathery, abaxially pubescent, 3-veined, base rounded, margin strongly revolute and shortly 1-or 2-lobulate, apex obtuse-acuminate. Infructescence terminal, corymbose, densely pubescent, with few samaras; pedicels 4-5 mm. Samaras finally glabrous, 1.8-2.2 cm including wing; nutlets strongly convex, elliptic-oblong, ca. 5 × 3 mm, wings ca. 4 mm wide, spreading at obtuse angle. Fl. Apr, fr. Sep.