Small deciduous trees, up to 5 meters high, the crown of the tree is evacuated and the branches are carried out. Branchlets slender, slightly curved, cylindrical, initially hairy, soon deciduous, purple or purple brown. Winter buds oval, apex acuminate, glabrous or only pubescent at the margin of scales, purple. Leaf blade ovate or elliptic to long ellipsoid, 3.5-8 cm long, 2.5-4.5 cm wide, apex long acuminate, base cuneate to nearly round, toothed thin or blunt or nearly entire, thick quality, glossy surface. The middle veins sometimes have pubescence, the rest are glabrous, and the top is dark green, lustrous and often with a purple halo. Petiole 5-25 mm long, young with sparsely pubescence and almost glabrous when old; small, membranous, lanceolate, hairy, early falling.
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