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4. Salix Sect. Pentandrae (Borrer ex Hooker) C. K. Schneider, Ill. Handb. Laubholzk. 1: 29. 1904.

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Salix [unranked] Pentandrae Borrer ex Hooker, Brit. Fl. 416. 1830.

Shrubs or small trees. Buds and young leaves viscid. Petiole glandular; leaf blade obovate-elliptic, elliptic, or ovate-oblong, rarely broadly lanceolate or broadly elliptic, adaxially shiny, margin prominently regularly glandular serrulate, apex acute to acuminate. Flowering coetaneous. Catkins spreading, densely flowered; peduncle conspicuous, with leaflets; bracts of female catkin yellowish green, usually caducous at fruiting. Male flower: stamens 5-9(-12). Female flower: adaxial and abaxial glands lobed, rarely entire, abaxial gland sometimes absent; ovary ovoid-conical, shortly stipitate; style and stigma conspicuous.


Key based on vegetative characters

1 Leaves usually lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, margin coarsely glandular serrate, glands at tips of teeth indistinct   19 Salix burqinensis
+ Leaves usually obovate-elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, margin regularly glandular serrulate, glands at tips of teeth distinct.   (2)
       
2 (1) Branchlets gray, rarely with a purplish tinge; leaves abaxially ± glaucous or pruinose; leaf blade obovate-elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate   21 Salix paraplesia
+ Branchlets grayish brown or grayish green; leaves abaxially greenish (white, pruinose, and blade broadly elliptic in S.pentandra var. intermedia).   (3)
       
3 (2) Leaf blade obovate-oblong or nearly long elliptic, broadest above middle; ovary slightly pilose   22 Salix humaensis
+ Leaf blade broadly lanceolate, elliptic-lanceolate, or ovate-oblong; ovary glabrous   20 Salix pentandra

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