岩壁垫柳 yan bi dian liu

Shrubs cushion-shaped, to. 10 cm tall; trunk creeping. Branches procumbent or decumbent; juvenile branchlets villous, 1-year-old branchlets chestnut brown, glabrous. Buds reddish, ovate, subglabrous. Petiole 1-2 mm, downy; leaf blade ovate-oblong, 4-8 × 2-4 mm, abaxially pale, dark downy when young, later glabrescent, adaxially green, subglabrous, papillate, base obtuse or rounded, margin entire, apex acute or subacute; midvein raised abaxially, impressed adaxially; lateral veins conspicuous, ca. 4 on each side of midvein abaxially, obscure adaxially. Catkins terminal on young shoots, ca. 5 cm × 4 mm, 6-8-flowered; bracts oblong, abaxially dark crisped downy at margin, apex rounded, densely ciliate. Male flower: glands adaxial and abaxial, subequal, ca. 1/2 as long as bracts; stamens 2, free; filaments glabrous, slightly longer than bracts. Female catkin unknown. Fl. Jul.

* About 4000 m. Yunnan (Gongshan Drungzu Nuzu Zizhixian: Dulong Jiang valley)

A. K. Skvortsov notes that this species is very near or possibly the same as Salix oreophila.

The name Salix hylematica C. K. Schneider var. scopulicola (Mao & W. Z. Li) N. Chao & G. T. Gong (J. Sichuan. For. Sci. Technol. 27: 10. 2006) appeared after the corresponding Flora volume.