藏柳 zang liu

Salix magnifica Hemsley var. microphylla P. Y. Mao.

Shrubs. Branchlets brown, stout, glabrous, glaucous. Buds subconical, large, ca. 1 cm, pilose. Petiole 0.7-1.5 cm, pubescent; leaf blade elliptic or broadly elliptic, 3-5.5 × 1.7-3.7 cm, thinly leathery, abaxially grayish white, glabrous, adaxially green, white pubescent along midvein, base cuneate to rounded, margin entire or irregularly obtuse-serrate, apex rounded; lateral veins 8-10 on each side of midvein, raised. Male catkin unknown. Fruiting catkin to 4 × 1.3 cm; peduncle ca. 1 cm, glabrous, with 2 leaflets; rachis villous; bracts long elliptic, ca. 2 mm, abaxially glabrous, adaxially villous at middle, apex rounded or truncate. Female flower: adaxial gland lanceolate, ca. 1 mm, abaxial gland small; ovary ellipsoid, ca. 1 mm, glabrous; stipe ca. 0.5 mm, stout, pubescent; style ca. as long as ovary, 2-cleft. Capsule ovoid-ellipsoid, ca. 5 mm, glabrous; stipe ca. 1.5 mm, densely pubescent. Fr. Sep.

* Hills; circa 4500 m. E Xizang, Yunnan