For deciduous trees, 30~40 meters tall, the whole plant is hairless, the breast height is up to 4 meters, the bark of young trees is smooth, light gray, and the bark of big trees is gray brown, with irregular longitudinal cracks, long branches and slow growing short branches. Ye Husheng, like scattered on long branches of radiation, on short branches into 3~5 pieces fasciclelike, slender petioles, fan-shaped sides, light green, in a wide number of top edge notched or 2 lobed, width 5~8 cm ~ 15, with many forked and bad, veinlets. Dilute dioecious, monoecious, flowers solitary in short branch axils; male flowers into catkin shaped stamens many, each have 2 anthers; female flowers with long stems, stem end often divided into two forks dilute 3~5 fork, 1 fork end with disk collar ovules usually 1 ovules into seed development. The seed mature period is 9~10 months.
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