Shrubs cushion-shaped, to 20 cm tall. Juvenile branchlets pilose, 1-year-old branchlets russet, glabrous. Petiole 2-5 mm, glabrous; leaf blade obovate or elliptic, abaxially greenish, at firstpilose, glabrescent, adaxially green, shiny, glabrous, base cuneate or cuneate-rounded, margin entire or obscurely crenate distally, apex rounded. Catkins terminal. Male catkin 1-2 cm; rachis densely white pubescent; bracts obovate-oblong, both surfaces glabrous or slightly villous at base, apexsubtruncate. Male flower: stamens 2, distinct; filaments villous; adaxial and abaxial glands terete, abaxial longer, ca. 1/2 as long as filaments, or 3/4 as long as bracts. Female catkin 1-1.5cm; rachis pilose; bracts as in male. Female flower: ovary narrowly ovoid, densely white villous, subsessile; style distinct, parted-divided; stigma 2-lobed, only adaxial gland present,terete, ca. as long as ovary (excluding style) bracts. Fl. Jun.
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