Shrubs or trees, to 6(-9) m, capable of stump-sprouting; lignotuber sometimes present, to 1.3 m diam. Young twigs gray-tomentose. Leaves horizontally oriented; petiole 0.2-2 cm, gray-tomentose; blade 3-12.8 × 1-4.2 cm (to 14.9 × 8.1 cm on sucker shoots), base tapering to cuneate, apex obtuse to acute; venation pinnate. Inflorescences 3.5-14 cm, usually gray-tomentose, rarely with stalked, swollen-headed, glandular hairs; floral bracts solitary at bases of pedicels, lanceolate-linear or lanceolate-ovate to oblong-ovate, plane to navicular, 2-10 mm. Pedicels often curved, 4-20 mm; bracteoles usually basal, rarely higher, often reduced, acicular to narrowly triangular, to 3 mm. Flowers: sepals appressed to corollas during flowering, becoming spreading to reflexed in fruit, equal or nearly so, much shorter than corolla tube, 2-3.5 × 0.8-1.7 mm, apex acute to acuminate, gray-tomentose, rarely with glandular hairs; petals spreading or recurved, corolla 5-8 × 3.5-5.5 mm, glabrous or puberulent, lobes obtuse, 0.9-1.3 × 1.4-1.8 mm; nectary weakly 10-lobed or-ribbed; stamens 2.6-3.6 mm; filaments 2.3-3.4 mm, villous; anthers ovoid, 1-1.6 mm, awns 0.6-1.1 mm; ovary villous; style often persistent, included or slightly exserted, 3-5.3 mm, glabrous or hairy; stigma minute. Drupes 5-7 mm diam. Seeds pendulous by persistent, gray, short, caplike funiculus, 2.2-2.3 × 1-1.4 mm; testa thick-walled, reticulate. 2n = 26.
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A shrub or tree. It grows 6 m high. It can form woody tubers and sprout from the stump. The leaves are arranged in a horizontal fashion. They are 3-13 cm long by 1-4 cm wide. The leaves on shoot suckers are larger and wider. The flowering shoots are 4-14 cm long. The fruit are 5-7 mm across
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