Shrubs to 1.5 m tall. Branchlets dull russet, stout, glabrous, shiny. Buds large. Petiole 5-10 mm, pilose; leaf blade obovate-elliptic to obovate-lanceolate, 4-9 × 2-3.2 cm, subleathery, abaxially grayish white, adaxially dull green, both surfaces usually glabrous except villous along midvein, base broadly cuneate or subcordate, margin entire or indistinctly irregularly remotely glandular dentate, apex acute or obtuse; lateral veins ca. 12 each side of abaxially raised midvein, diverging from midvein at almost 90°. Male catkin unknown. Fruiting catkin stout, more than 10 cm, ca. 1.3 cm wide; peduncle 3-4.5 cm, with several leaflets; rachis pilose; bracts brown, suboblong, 2-3 mm, abaxially villous, adaxially glabrous, margin often irregularly shallowly dentate, apex subtruncate. Female flower: adaxial gland ovate-oblong, subtruncate, ca. 0.5 mm; ovary conical, pilose, subsessile; style ca. 1 mm, furcate; stigma 2-1obed. Capsule 5-6 mm, ± pilose, subsessile. Fr. Oct.

* Mountains; circa 2800 m. NW Yunnan (Gaoligong Shan)