Shrubs. Branchlets dark purple or brown, stout, smooth, glabrous. Buds 7-10 mm. Petiole reddish, 5-13 mm, glabrous; leaf blade obovate-elliptic, obovate, or elliptic, 3-5 × 1-3 cm, glabrous or puberulent along midvein, abaxially dull green, adaxially greenish or pruinose, base obtuse or subrounded, margin glandular serrate or subentire, apex acute to subrounded. Catkins 1.5-2.5(-3.5) cm; peduncle short, with 1-3 leaflets at base; bracts elliptic to broadly obovate, pilose, apex rounded to truncate. Male flower: adaxial and abaxial glands shortly linear or terete, divided or entire; stamens 2; filaments distinct, woolly from base to middle, ca. 2 × as long as bracts; anthers yellow, ellipsoid. Fruiting catkin to 5 cm. Female flower: glands 1 or 2, abaxial gland slightly smaller than adaxial gland or abaxial gland absent; ovary ovoid, densely downy; style ca. as long as ovary, 2-cleft. Capsule to 6 mm. Fl. Jul, fr. Aug.
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