Medium-sized widespreading tree to c. 12 m high; bark somewhat fissured. Branches and branchlets long and pendulous. Shoots golden yellow, slender, moderately brittle, soon glabrous. Petiole usually < 5 mm long. Buds yellowish brown, hairy. Lvs 4-11 × 0.7-1.5 cm, lanceolate or almost lanceolate, glaucous below, soon becoming glabrous, glandular-serrulate; apex acuminate. Stipules small or minute, not curved at apex. Catkins with ♂ and ♀ fls, the ♀ fls commonest toward the apex, appearing with lvs, on very short leafy shoots, to 5 cm long, narrow-cylindric, slightly curved; rachis villous. Bracts 1.5-2.5 mm long, lanceolate-oblong or lanceolate-elliptic, green, hairy; margins strongly incurved (almost cucullate); apex obtuse or subacute. Glands 0.4-0.7 mm long, ± oblong or ovate-oblong, 2 in ♂ fls, posterior 1 often rudimentary, 1 in ♀ fls. Stamens 2; filaments hairy towards base. ovary glabrous, sessile.