Shrubs creeping. Branches prostrate or slightly ascending; juvenile branchlets villous, glabrescent. Buds globose, small, glabrous. Leaves petiolate; leaf blade ovate-oblong, oblong, or obovate-elliptic, 3-5(-7) × 1.5-2.5(-3.5) mm, abaxially glaucous, sericeous, adaxially green, glabrous or subglabrous, base cuneate, margin entire, apex obtuse or acute. Male catkin terminal, capitate, ca. 5 mm, 10-20-flowered; bracts ovate or subelliptic, ca. 1/2 as long as stamens, abaxially and marginally pilose, adaxially glabrous, apex rounded-truncate or irregularly dentate. Male flower: stamens 2, free, basally pilose; glands 2, linear, equal, ca. 1/2 as long as bracts, adaxial gland occasionally 2-cleft. Female catkin unknown.
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