Shrubs to 3 m tall. Branches erect; branchlets greenish brown or dark brown, silky tomentose when young, glabrescent or subglabrous, shiny. Petiole 1-3 mm, pilose; leaf blade elliptic or narrowly elliptic, 1-4 × 0.5-1.5 cm, abaxially silky downy at first, becoming subglabrous except along midvein, adaxially green, glabrous or pilose along midvein, both ends obtuse, margin entire. Male catkin 3-4.5 cm × 6-9 mm; peduncle with 3 or 4 leaflets; rachis villous, densely flowered; bracts yellowish green or distally brown, broadly ovate, long ciliate or abaxially subglabrous. Male flower: gland adaxial, abaxial gland sometimes absent; stamens 2; filaments basally villous; anthers yellow, ovoid. Female catkin ca. 3 cm × 6 mm, to 5 cm in fruit; peduncle with 3 leaflets; bracts ovate, villous. Female flower: gland adaxial; ovary ovoid, glabrous, sessile or subsessile; style 2-cleft; stigma small. Capsule ca. 3 mm. Fl. Apr, fr. Apr-May.
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