Shrubs to 1 m tall. Branches purple-red; juvenile branchlets brown green or yellow-red. Buds ovoid or narrowly ovoid, pubescent. Petiole 1-4 mm; leaf blade oblanceolate or narrowly obovate-oblong, 0.8-1.5(-3) cm × 6-8 mm, abaxially greenish, glabrous, adaxially green, white pubescent, base cuneate to rounded, margin entire, apex acute. Flowering coetaneous. Male catkin terete, ca. 8 × 3 mm; peduncle short, with 1 or 2 leaflets basally; bracts ovate or long ovate, pilose at margin, apex obtuse. Male flower: glands adaxial and abaxial, terete, abaxial gland shorter than adaxial; stamens 2, distinct; filaments pilose proximally. Female catkin ovoid, ca. 5 mm, ca. 1 cm in fruit; peduncle short; bracts similar to those of male catkin. Female flower: gland adaxial, terete, longer than stipe; ovary conical; stipe short, densely pubescent; style indistinct; stigma (2 or)3-or 4-lobed. Capsule pilose; stipe short, reddish.
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