Shrubs, 1-2.5 m, (forming clones by layering). Stems: branches yellow-brown or yellow-gray, not or weakly glaucous, (with sparkling wax crystals, dull or slightly glossy), pilose or villous; branchlets gray-brown or red-brown, pubescent, villous, or velvety. Leaves: stipules foliaceous, apex acute or convex; petiole shallowly grooved adaxially, 4-13 mm, villous or pubescent adaxially; largest medial blade (amphistomatous), narrowly oblong, narrowly elliptic, elliptic, oblanceolate, or lanceolate, 26-47 × 7.5-15 mm, 2.8-4.1 times as long as wide, base convex, rounded, or subcordate, margins slightly revolute or flat, serrate or serrulate, apex acuminate to acute, abaxial surface glaucous, glabrous, pilose, villous, or long-silky, hairs straight or wavy, adaxial dull, sparsely or moderately densely pilose or long-silky, especially on midrib; proximal blade margins entire or serrulate; juvenile blade reddish or yellowish green, sparsely to moderately densely long-silky or pubescent abaxially, hairs white. Catkins flowering just before or as leaves emerge; staminate stout, 16-30 × 8-10 mm, flowering branchlet 1.5-4 mm; pistillate loosely flowered, stout, 18-22 × 9-11 mm, flowering branchlet 3-4 mm; floral bract brown or tawny, 1.2-1.6 mm, apex acute or rounded, abaxially hairy throughout or proximally, hairs straight or wavy. Staminate flowers: adaxial nectary narrowly oblong or ovate, 0.7-1.1 mm; filaments distinct or connate, hairy basally; anthers yellow, 0.6-0.8 mm. Pistillate flowers: adaxial nectary oblong, flask-shaped, or narrowly ovate, 0.4-1 mm, shorter than stipe; stipe 2-4 mm; ovary pyriform, glabrous, beaks slightly bulged below styles; ovules 14-18 per ovary; styles 0.3-0.5 mm; stigmas flat, abaxially non-papillate with rounded or pointed tip, 0.16-0.23-0.28 mm. Capsules 2.5-5 mm.
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