Sect. Chrysanthae (Koch) C. K. Schneider.

Shrubs erect or cushion-shaped. Branchlets brown, thick. Stipules ovate to lanceolate; leaf blade ovate-orbicular, broadly elliptic, or elliptic, rarely broadly lanceolate, both surfaces sericeous, white pubescent, or with hairs only along veins, margin entire or irregularly serrate, abaxially conspicuously veined. Catkins shortly pedunculate; bracts 2-colored, apex nearly black. Male flower: gland solitary, adaxial; stamens 2; filaments distinct or united at base, glabrous. Female flower: glands sometimes 2, adaxial and abaxial; ovary ovoid-conical, glabrous, stipitate; style long; stigma 2-cleft.