Trees to 4 m tall; bark gray. Branchlets dark purplish, glabrous. Petiole 5-7 mm, pubescent; leaf blade lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 2.5-4.5 × 1-1.5 cm, abaxially villous along veins, glabrous elsewhere, adaxially villous when young, base broadly cuneate or subrounded, margin simply setiform serrate, apex long acuminate; lateral veins 18-20 on each side of midvein. Female inflorescence 1.4-2.5 × 1-1.2 cm; peduncle 1.4-2.1 cm, slender, pubescent; bracts semiovate, 5-8 × 3-4 mm, pubescent at base adaxially, outer margin remotely dentate, without basal lobe, inner margin entire, with inflexed basal auricle, apex acute; veins 4 or 5, reticulate veins prominent. Nutlet broadly ovoid, 2-3 × 1.5-2.5 mm, glabrous except sparsely villous at apex, prominently ribbed. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Jun-Aug.

* Subtropical broad-leaved forests; circa 1100 m. Hunan (Dayong Xian)