Trees; bark gray, sulcate. Branchlets green or reddish, glabrous. Stipules absent or very small; petiole ca. 1 cm; leaf blade lanceolate, broadest at middle, ca. 7.5 × 1.3 cm, abaxially pale green, glabrous, adaxially green, base attenuate, margin serrate, apex long acuminate. Flowering precocious or nearly coetaneous. Male catkin unknown. Female catkin cylindric, ca. 5 × 1 cm, sessile or shortly pedunculate, nearly parallel to branchlets; rachis villous; bracts obovate, ca. as long as to shorter than stipe, white villous, apex russet. Female flower: gland 1, oblong; ovary ovoid, glabrous; stipe long; style long; stigma 2-cleft. Fl. Mar.

* 500-600 m. Anhui, Henan, Hubei, Jiangxi