平利柳 ping li liu

Trees to 5 m tall. Branchlets greenish brown, thin, ca. 1 mm in diam., glabrous, pubescent when young. Stipules ovate or ovate-lanceolate, ca. 3.5 mm, margin serrate; petiole 2-3 mm, pubescent; leaf blade lanceolate, 6-8 × 1.4-1.6 cm, abaxially glaucous, adaxially green, when young sparsely long pubescent on both surfaces, base narrowly cuneate, margin glandular serrate, apex long acuminate, becoming awned. Male catkin unknown. Female catkin very small, 1.2-1.4 cm at fruiting; peduncle 4-7 mm, densely pubescent, with 2 or 3 leaflets; rachis densely long pubescent; bracts brown, ovate-oblong, membranous, abaxially subglabrous or sparsely long pubescent at base, adaxially sparsely long pubescent at base. Female flower: gland adaxial, large, broad; ovary ovoid-conical, 1.5-1.8 mm, glabrous, long pubescent only at base, shortly stipitate; style short; stigma large. Capsule 3-3.5 mm. Fl. Mar, fr. Apr.

* Roadsides; 400-600 m. Shaanxi

A. K. Skvortsov postulates that this species may be an individual clone of Salix babylonica.