Description from
Flora of China
Older and juvenile branchlets glabrous. Catkin peduncle ca. 5 mm; bracts yellowish green, obovate or obovate-oblong, abaxially sparsely villous. Female flower: adaxial and abaxial glands present. Fl. Jun-Jul.
* Mountain slopes; circa 3100 m. Gansu (Yuzhong Xian)