Shrubs low, to 25 cm tall, sparingly branched. Branchlets greenish to reddish, stout, glabrous. Stipules linear, small, deciduous or not developed; petiole short, densely villous; leaf blade elliptic, 4-5 × 2.5-3.5 cm, abaxially silky pubescent, adaxially slightly pubescent, base rounded, margin sharply serrate, apex obtuse or acute; lateral veins 12 or 13 on each side of midvein. Male catkin unknown. Female catkin cylindric, 2-4 cm; bracts oblong, apex obtuse, sparsely villous. Female flower: gland adaxial; ovary ovoid, tomentose, long stipitate; style short; stigma 2-cleft.

A. K. Skvortsov suggests that the sectional position of this species is uncertain because it is very poorly known.

* Mountain slopes; 2900-3200 m. Taiwan