Sect. Taiwanalpinae C. F. Fang.

Shrubs creeping, decumbent, or erect, rarely small trees. Branchlets with ± pilose, deciduous stipules. Leaf blade usually lanceolate or narrowly oblong to obovate-elliptic, both surfaces often pilose, margin entire, rarely sharply serrate. Catkins shortly pedunculate; peduncle with 2 or 3 leaflets. Male flower: stamens 2; filaments with sparse hairs or glabrous. Female flower: ovary long stipitate; style very short. Flowers with only an adaxial gland.