Trees small. Branches dull purple; juvenile branchlets pubescent. Petiole 5-7 mm, pubescent; leaf blade long elliptic-lanceolate, 4-5 × 1-1.5 cm, both surfaces shortly woolly, becoming yellowish when dried, base subrounded, margin usually entire, rarely remotely glandular crenate, apex acute or shortly acuminate. Male catkin unknown. Female catkin ca. 1.1 cm; peduncle with 1 leaflet at base; rachis densely pubescent; bracts brown when dried, obovate-oblong or suboblong-elliptic, ca. 1/2 as long as ovary, pilose, margin irregularly dentate, apex subtruncate. Female flower: adaxial gland oblong, divided or entire, 1/4-1/3 as long as bracts; ovary gray, densely pubescent, sessile; style shortly cleft; stigma purple or red, 2-lobed. Fl. Aug.

* Mountain slopes. Xizang (Gamba Xian)