Shrubs or trees. Flowering branchlets silky villous. Buds oblong, shortly pilose. Leaves unknown. Flowering precocious. Male catkin unknown. Female catkin thinner toward apex, usually curved, to 5 × 1 cm, densely flowered, sessile; rachis villous; bracts brownish, oblong, ca. 2 × as long as stipe, long sericeous, apex subobtuse. Female flower: adaxial gland obtusely rectangular; ovary ovoid, glabrous, shortly stipitate; style ca. as long as ovary, puberulent; stigma linear, 2- or 3-lobed. Capsule unknown.

The description is based on the protologue. This species is temporarily placed in this section; additional specimens need to be collected to understand more fully its characteristics and position.

* About 3000 m. NE Yunnan (Qiaojia Xian)