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10. Salix Sect. Floccosae K. S. Hao ex C. F. Fang & A. K. Skvortsov, Novon. 8: 470. 1998.

青藏矮柳属 qing zang ai liu zu

Shrubs low, usually less than 50(-100) cm tall. Catkins usually terminal or sometimes lateral, cylindric, with leaflets at base. Male flower: stamens 2, distinct; adaxial and abaxial glands present (abaxial rarely absent). Female flower: adaxial gland only present, rarely a small abaxial gland; ovary pilose or glabrous, sessile or subsessile (except in a few species).


Key based on male plants

1 Male flower with only an adaxial gland.   (2)
+ Male flower with adaxial and abaxial glands.   (3)
       
2 (1) Bracts glabrous   97 Salix microphyta
+ Bracts adaxially densely white villous   99 Salix vaccinioides
       
3 (1) Filaments glabrous.   (4)
+ Filaments pilose.   (6)
       
4 (3) Filaments connate, connate in part, or free   98 Salix kungmuensis
+ Filaments free.   (5)
       
5 (4) Catkin rachis pilose; leaf blade broadly obovate to ovate, margin entire or sparsely glandular serrate   100 Salix resectoides
+ Catkin rachis glabrous; leaf blade elliptic or obovate-elliptic, sometimes suboblong, margin crenate   96 Salix faxonianoides
       
6 (3) Leaves abaxially floccose   102 Salix floccosa
+ Leaves abaxially glabrous, or downy when young.   (7)
       
7 (6) Mature leaves adaxially sparsely pubescent, abaxially villous when young, becoming glabrous or glaucous   104 Salix coggygria
+ Mature leaves adaxially glabrous or sparsely pilose when young.   (8)
       
8 (7) Filaments villous for proximal 3/4 to all their length; bracts pubescent; leaf blade obovate-elliptic, elliptic, or oblong, 2-5 × 1.5-2.5 cm   105 Salix annulifera
+ Filaments pilose proximally; bracts pilose only at base; leaf blade obovate-elliptic, elliptic, or oblong, 1.5-3.5 × 1-1.8 cm   101 Salix opsimantha

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