Twigs 2-4 mm diameter. Leaves chartaceous or coriaceous, small or large, ± lanceolate or ovate-elliptic, or (ovate-)oblong, narrower than in subsp. chrysophylla, 2.5-9.5 cm wide, base short-attenuate or narrowly or broadly rounded, not cordate; upper surface not or but faintly bullate, lower leaf surface glaucous (indumentum brown underneath), (early) glabrescent, the hairs dense to ± sparse, brown. Male buds 5-6 mm, cleft c. 1/3. Fruits (ovoid-)oblong, (2.5-)3-4.5 by 2 cm, with woolly hairs 2-3 mm.