Shrubs. Branchlets dark brown, glabrous, pruinose. Leaves alternate; petiole 2-10 mm, glabrous; leaf blade broadly oblong or elliptic, 1-3.4 × 1-1.7 cm, abaxially pale, gray or pruinose, dictyogenous, adaxially dull green, base acute or obtuse, rarely subrounded or subcordate, apex obtuse in proximal branchlets. Flowering coetaneous. Male catkin 4-6 cm × ca. 8 mm, densely flowered; peduncle with leaflets; rachis villous; bracts russet when dried, oblong, white villous, apex obtuse. Male flower: gland 1, terete, ca. 0.5 mm; stamens 2, completely or partly connate. Female catkin unknown.
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