Shrubs to 4.5 m tall. Branchlets glabrous. Buds pubescent. Stipules short; petiole thin, 5-7 mm, slightly pilose, sometimes small glandular; leaf blade elliptic, long elliptic, or oblong, ca. 3.5 × 1.5 cm, abaxially glaucous, glabrous, adaxially dull green, tomentose along midvein, glabrescent, base cuneate to rounded, margin entire or ± small glandular dentate, apex acute or rounded; lateral veins thin abaxially. Male catkin ca. 4 cm × 9 mm; rachis tomentose; bracts subrectangular, ca. 2.5 mm. Male flower: glands adaxial and abaxial; stamens 2; filaments distinct, basally villous. Female catkin to 5.5 cm × 8 mm; peduncle to 1 cm, with leaflets or not; rachis gray tomentose; bracts oblong, 1-2 mm, ± ciliate, apex rounded or truncate. Female flower: adaxial gland broadly ovate or oblong; ovary ellipsoid-ovoid, glabrous, subsessile; style ca. 1 mm, entire; stigma 2-lobed. Capsule ovoid-ellipsoid, 3-4 mm, glabrous, subsessile. Fl. Jun, fr. Jul.

* Mountains; 3400-3700 m. NW Sichuan