Shrubs, rarely small trees, to 4 m tall. Branches crowded; juvenile branchlets pinkish purple, downy or tomentose, glabrescent. Buds ellipsoid or subovoid, angled, longer than petioles. Petiole short; leaf blade elliptic-lanceolate or oblong-oblanceolate, 1.5-2 × ca. 5 cm, to 4 cm on vigorous shoots, abaxially greenish, grayish white sericeous when young, glabrescent, when mature subglabrous, adaxially dark green, margin indistinctly loosely serrate, both ends obtuse or apex rounded or acute; veins raised. Male catkin terete, 2-4 cm × 5-8 mm, sessile or shortly pedunculate, with 1 or 2 leaflets at base or not; bracts elliptic, villous, apex obtuse or subacute. Male flower: glands 2, russet or red, terete, 2-or 3-parted or entire, connate at base; stamens 2; filaments partly connate, rarely distinct or connate throughout, glabrous or pilose at base; anthers yellow or reddish yellow, small, glabrous. Female catkin ca. 2.5 × 1 cm, shortly pedunculate, with 1 or 2 leaflets at base; bracts oblong or obovate-oblong, villous. Female flower: adaxial gland 2-or 3-lobed; ovary ovoid-cylindric, pilose, absent; style absent; stigma oblong, 2-cleft. Fl. Jul-Aug.
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