Shrubs low, to 50 cm tall, glabrous throughout. Branchlets dull red; juvenile branchlets dirty brown when dried. Buds dull red, ovoid. Petiole 5-8 mm; leaf blade broadly elliptic, 2-3 × 1.5-1.8 cm, abaxially with whitish bloom, adaxially green, base broadly cuneate, margin entire, apex acute or mucronate; midvein raised abaxially, retuse adaxially; lateral veins 7 on each side of midvein. Flowering coetaneous. Male catkin unknown. Female catkin shortly cylindric, ca. 1.5 × 0.5 cm; peduncle ca. 1 cm, with 1 or 2 leaflets at base; bracts yellowish green, obovate, ca. as long as or slightly longer than stipe, apex rounded-truncate, retuse. Female flower: adaxial gland shortly cylindric, ca. 1/2 as long as stipe; ovary ovoid, ca. 2 mm; stipe ca. 1.2 cm; style short; stigmas 1, or slightly divided, or 2. Capsule unknown. Fl. May.
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