Trees or shrubs. Juvenile branchlets with filamentous hairs at base. Buds pilose at apex. Petiole to 1.5 cm, usually with several glands; leaf blade elliptic or narrowly ovate, ca. 11 × 6 cm, abaxially greenish, white villous along veins, adaxially dull green, glabrous or ± downy, base rounded to cuneate, margin glandular serrulate, apex acute to rounded; lateral veins 16-20 on each side of midvein. Catkins 6-8 cm; peduncle 1-3 cm, with leaflets; bracts narrowly obovate, ca. 1 mm, densely villous, apex rounded. Male flower: adaxial gland rectangular, abaxial gland broadly ovate, very small; stamens 2, glabrous. Fruiting catkin to 12 cm. Female flower: adaxial gland broadly ovate; ovary long pubescent or glabrous, shortly stipitate; style ca. 1 mm, 2-lobed; stigma 2-cleft. Capsule oblong-ovoid, pilose or glabrous, shortly stipitate.
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