Trees to 20 m tall. Winter buds to 1.5 cm. Leaf blade rhomboid-ovate, 3-7 cm, covered with silky pubescence when young, glabrescent except for glandular dots and tufts of hair onmidvein and abaxially on axils of secondary veins, base broadly cuneate to nearly rounded, apex acute to shortly acuminate; veins blackish when dry; midvein flexuous toward apex;secondary veins 5-9 on each side of midvein, ending in teeth. Peduncle 0.5-2 cm, pilose. Cupule 7-10 mm; bracts linear, recurved, 1-3 mm, pilose. Nut as long as cupule, with very smallwings near apex. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Aug-Oct.
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