舟曲柳 zhou qu liu

Shrubs to 1.5 m tall. Juvenile branchlets yellowish gray silky villous, 1-year-old branchlets ± pilose. Buds glabrous. Petiole 2-4 mm; leaf blade orbicular, broadly elliptic, or obovate, 1.5-2.5(-3) × 1.2-2 cm, abaxially greenish, densely silky villous, adaxially dull green, glabrous, base rounded or subrounded, margin entire, apex rounded; lateral veins 5-7 on each side of midvein; reticulate veins conspicuous. Flowering coetaneous. Male catkin unknown. Female catkin 1.7-2 cm × ca. 5 mm. Female flower: ovary narrowly ovoid, ca. 3.5 mm, sessile, glabrous; style ca. 2.5 mm, 2-lobed; stigma lobed, distinctly revolute. Fl. May.

* Near woods; ca. 2700 m. Gansu (Zhouqu Xian)

The name Salix minjiangensis N. Chao var. zhouquensis (X. G. Sun) N. Chao & G. T. Gong (J. Sichuan. For. Sci. Technol. 27: 12. 2006) appeared after the corresponding Flora volume.