Carpinus hupeana Hu var. simplicidentata (Hu) P. C. Li; C. simplicidentata Hu; C. turczaninowii Hance var. stipulata (H. Winkler) H. Winkler.

Trees to 8 m tall; bark gray. Branchlets dark purplish, glabrous. Petiole ca. 1 cm, sparsely villous; leaf blade ovate, ovate-elliptic, or ovate-lanceolate, 2-3.5 × 1-3 cm, abaxially sericeous-villous along veins, bearded in axils of lateral veins, adaxially glabrous, base subrounded or subcordate, margin simply mucronate serrate, apex acuminate, rarely acute; lateral veins 11-13 on each side of midvein. Female inflorescence ca. 5 × 2 cm; peduncle ca. 1 cm, densely villous; bracts broadly semiovate, ca. 15 × 3 mm, sparsely villous, outer margin irregularly dentate, without basal lobe, inner margin entire, with inflexed basal auricle, apex acute; veins 4 or 5, reticulate veins prominent. Nutlet broadly ovoid, ca. 4 × 2.5 mm, glabrous except villous at apex, ribbed. Fl. May-Jun, fr. Jul-Aug.

* Temperate forests; 800-2100 m. E Gansu, W Hubei, S Shaanxi