小齿叶柳 xiao chi ye liu

Shrubs. Mature branchlets greenish gray; juvenile branchlets densely tomentose, nearly black when dried, pilose, glabrous proximally. Buds narrowly ovoid, downy or tomentose. Petiole 1-2 mm, tomentose; leaf blade obovate-elliptic or obovate-oblong, rarely oblanceolate or elliptic, 2-2.5 cm × 7-10 mm, abaxially whitish, adaxially green, downy when young, base rounded-cuneate to cuneate, margin serrate, apex acute; veins slightly raised, villous and tomentose, glabrescent. Male catkin unknown. Female catkin 4-5 cm × 4-6 cm; peduncle ca. 7 mm, with 1 or 2 leaflets; rachis tomentose; bracts obovate, ca. 1 mm, submembranous, glabrous or pubescent at base, margin entire, slightly undulate, apex subtruncate or rounded. Female flower: adaxial gland shortly cylindric, longer than stipe, apex truncate or retuse; ovary ovoid-cylindric or narrowly ovoid, ca. 1.5 mm, glabrous, shortly stipitate; style conspicuous, 2-cleft; stigma subcapitate, divided or entire. Capsule to 5 mm. Fl. May, fr. Jun.

* Mountain slopes; circa 2400 m. Xizang