Shrubs to 3 m tall. Branchlets dull brown; young branchlets dull brown or purplish brown, short and thick, glabrous or subglabrous. Petiole 4-10 mm, pubescent; leaf blade elliptic or obovate-elliptic, 1.5-4 × 1-2.5 cm, abaxially grayish white, pruinose when young, glabrescent, adaxially dark green, pubescent along midvein, base obtuse or subrounded, margin glandular serrate or entire, apex acute or obtuse; veins conspicuous. Catkins terminal on juvenile branchlets. Male catkin 3-3.5 × ca. 1 cm; peduncle ca. 1 cm, with leaflets; rachis pubescent; bracts oblong, both surfaces sparsely downy and ciliate, apex obtuse or slightly acute. Male flower: adaxial and abaxial glands usually divided; stamens 2, ca. 3 × as long as bracts; filaments basally downy; anthers yellow, ovoid. Female catkin to 2-6 × ca. 1.5 cm in fruit; bracts as in male catkin. Female flower: adaxial gland present, abaxial gland sometimes present. style conspicuous in fruit, 2-cleft; stigma 2-lobed. Capsule glabrous, shortly stipitate; Fl. Jul-Aug, fr. Aug-Sep.
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