川柳组 chuan liu zu

Salix [unranked] Sieboldianae Seemen, Salic. Jap. 21. 1903.

Shrubs or small trees. Leaf blade ovate-lanceolate to obovate-oblong or elliptic, abaxially light, pilose or glabrous, when young usually with brown hairs or downy, margin serrulate, rarely entire, apex acute or acuminate. Flowering coetaneous. Catkins slender; peduncle short or absent, with 1-3 leaflets deciduous in fruit. Male flower: gland solitary, adaxial; stamens 2; filaments distinct to connate throughout. Female flower: gland as in male flower; ovary narrowly ovoid, sericeous, sessile or subsessile; style conspicuous; stigma 2-cleft.

Male plants of Salix shihtsuanensis and S. yuhuangshanensis are unknown.

Lower Taxa

• Salix hylonoma C. K. Schneider
• Salix shihtsuanensis C. Wang & C. Y. Yu
• Salix yuhuangshanensis C. Wang & C. Y. Yu