台湾匐柳 gao shan liu

Salix maboulasensis Ying; S. taiwanalpina Kimura var. takasagoalpina (Kimura) Ying.

Shrubs creeping. Branchlets white pubescent when young. Stipules small, deciduous or absent; petiole 1-2 mm, glabrous; leaf blade elliptic, ca. 10 × 7 mm, leathery, abaxially glaucous, adaxially subglabrous, base obtuse, margin serrulate, apex acute; lateral veins 4 on each side of midvein. Male catkin shortly cylindric or oblong, ca. 1 cm, densely flowered; bracts reddish at apex, oblong, 1-1.8 mm, both surfaces villous. Male flower: stamens 2, free, glabrous; glands adaxial. Female flower: gland adaxial; ovary lanceolate, glabrous, stipitate; style short; stigma 2-cleft.

* Mountain slopes. Taiwan