白河柳 bai he liu

Salix mongolica (Franchet) Siuzev var. yanbianica (C. F. Fang & Chang Y. Yang) Y. L. Chou.

Shrubs; bark gray. Branchlets yellowish green, glabrous; juvenile branchlets brownish, tomentulose. Stipules lanceolate, margin remotely dentate; petiole 2-3 mm, tomentose; leaf blade lanceolate or oblanceolate, 3-6 × 0.7-1 cm, 6-8 × 1-1.5 cm on shoots, abaxially greenish, at first pilose, glabrescent, adaxially green, base cuneate, margin densely glandular serrate, apex obtuse or shortly acuminate; lateral veins diverging from brownish midvein at 45° . Male catkin terete, 2-3 cm × ca. 7 mm; peduncle with 2 or 3 leaflets; bracts brownish, dull brown distally, spatulate, ca. 1.2 mm, villous. Male flower: adaxial gland greenish brown, long ovate; stamens 2, connate throughout; filaments pilose at base, ca. 2.5 mm; anthers red or in proximal part of catkin yellow. Female catkin 1-3 cm × ca. 5 mm. Female flower: ovary ovoid, densely white tomentose, subsessile; style short to absent; stigma red, 2-cleft. Capsule brownish, tomentose. Fl. Apr, fr. Jun.

* Sunny, open places by rivers; 100-800 m. E Jilin

Similar to Salix gilgiana Seemen, from Japan and Korea, but leaves smaller; ovary subsessile; style short to absent. According to the specimens the authors have examined, S. gilgiana does not occur in China.