Deciduous small tree to tree, up to 18 m high, bark dark gray; current year branchlets young yellow-brown, densely pubescent, gradually shed, to brown when fruiting, with scattered lenticels, hairs a few can be removed; winter buds black-brown, bud scales pilose, hairs of the internal scales long and dense. Leaves broadly ovate, ovate to ovate-elliptic, 2.5-7 cm long, 2-3.5 cm wide, base obtuse to subrounded, slightly oblique, apex acuminate to caudate-acuminate, sparsely shallowly toothed above the middle, thinly leathery, margins slightly revolute, vein lines above more sunken, hairy situation more variable, both surfaces hirtellous, or leaf surface glabrous, hairs on abaxial veins only, or densely pilose below in addition to hispid; petiole 3-6 mm long, hairy when young, internal scales long and dense. 6 mm, hairy when young, glabrescent with age. Stipules are striped lanceolate, hairy, and tardily deciduous, often not until the leaves are fully grown. Infructescence solitary in leaf axils, usually 2-fruited (rarely 1- or 3-fruited), much like fruiting pedicels twinned in leaf axils due to extremely short pedicels, which together with the fruiting pedicels are 1-2 cm long and hispid; fruit sparsely or densely pilose when young, gradually glabrescent, yellow to orange-red, subglobose, ca. 5 mm in diam. Flowering April-May, fruiting September-October.