Trees , to 8 m; trunks short, crooked, shallowly fluted, crowns open, spreading. Bark steel gray or brownish gray, smooth to somewhat roughened. Winter buds containing inflorescences squarish in cross section, 3--4 mm. Leaf blade narrowly ovate to oblong-ovate, 3--8.5(--12) × 3--6 cm, base narrowly rounded to cordate, margins doubly serrate, apex acute or obtuse; surfaces abaxially slightly to moderately pubescent, especially on major veins, without small dark glands. Infructescences 2.5--7 cm; bracts relatively uncrowded, 2--3 × 1.4--2.3 cm, lobes narrow, elongate, apex acute, obtuse, or rounded.
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