Trees to 3 m tall. Branchlets dark brownish purple, at first tomentose, becoming subglabrous. Petiole 4-8 mm, pubescent; leaf blade obovate-oblong, 5-9 × 2.4-3.8 cm, both surfacestomentose when young, abaxially grayish green, glabrous or sparsely pilose, adaxially green, pilose, base broadly cuneate, margin entire, apex acute or obtuse. Flowering coetaneous.Male catkin unknown. Female catkin 3.5-5 cm, to 6-6.5 cm in fruit; peduncle 1.5-1.8 cm, with 2 or 3 normal leaflets; rachis villous or tomentose; bracts ovate-oblong or long ovate, nearlyas long as ovary, ciliate. Female flower: adaxial gland ovate-square, ca. 1/4 as long as bracts; ovary conical-ovoid, glabrous, sessile; style nearly as long as ovary, 2-cleft; stigma short, 2-lobed. Capsule ca. 4 mm, glabrous. Fl. beginning of Jul, fr. middle to end of Jul.
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