Trees to 10 m. Branchlets and leaf blade abaxially densely silvery-gray lepidote. Leaf blades narrowly elliptic to elliptic, rarely narrowly ovate, 1.5-9 × 0.5-2 cm, apex acute to acuminate, mucronate. Panicles axillary or subterminal, 2-4 cm. Flowers bisexual or functionally unisexual. Drupe ellipsoid, 2-4 cm, mesocarp thick and fleshy. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Jun-Sep.
'Flora of China @ eFloras (2008). Published on the Internet http://www.efloras.org/flora_page.aspx?flora_id=2 [accessed August 2016]' Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
