Plants 1-6 m. Stems: branches red-brown or yellow-brown, not or weakly glaucous, (slightly or highly glossy), glabrous or glabrescent; branchlets yellow-green, red-brown, or brownish, glabrous, pilose, or densely villous, (inner membranaceous bud-scale layer free, separating from outer layer). Leaves: stipules foliaceous, (prominent, 5-9-15 mm), apex rounded to acute, sometimes acuminate; petiole (usually reddish), shallowly grooved, or convex to flat adaxially, 6-20 mm, short-silky or velvety adaxially; largest medial blade broadly to narrowly elliptic, or ovate to broadly obovate, (25-)30-86(-118) × 12-51 mm, 1.4-3 times as long as wide, base convex, rounded, cuneate, subcordate, cordate, or sometimes irregularly lobed, margins flat, serrulate or crenate, apex acute, acuminate, or convex, abaxial surface glaucous, glabrous, pubescent, or pilose, hairs wavy, adaxial slightly glossy or dull, glabrous, puberulent, pubescent, or pilose, midrib hairy; proximal blade margins entire or serrulate; juvenile blade reddish, glabrous or pubescent abaxially, hairs white, sometimes also ferruginous. Catkins flowering before leaves emerge; staminate stout, 16-39 × 10-12 mm, flowering branchlet 0 mm; pistillate densely or moderately densely flowered, slender to globose, 17-73 × 8-20 mm, flowering branchlet 0-5 mm; floral bract brown or black, 1-2.4 mm, apex rounded or acute, abaxially hairy, hairs straight. Staminate flowers: adaxial nectary oblong, 0.3-1 mm; filaments distinct or connate less than 1/2 their lengths, glabrous; anthers purple turning yellow, 0.4-0.5 mm. Pistillate flowers: adaxial nectary oblong, flask-shaped, 0.3-0.8 mm, shorter than stipe; stipe 0.5-0.8-3 mm; ovary pyriform or obclavate, glabrous, beak gradually tapering to styles; ovules 18 per ovary; styles (0.5-)0.7-1.8 mm; stigmas flat, abaxially non-papillate with rounded tip, or 2 plump lobes, 0.1-0.21-0.29 mm. Capsules 4-7 mm. 2n = 38.
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