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Salix chekiangensis Cheng
浙江柳
Description from Flora of China
Trees; bark dull brown. Branchlets brown, glabrous; juvenile branchlets brownish, pilose or subglabrous. Leaf blade when young oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, 1.5-3.5 cm, abaxially greenish, at first densely appressed grayish white downy, glabrescent, adaxially green, pubescent along midvein or glabrous, margin obscurely glandular serrate. Flowering coetaneous. Male catkin 3.5-6.5 cm; peduncle 4-5 mm, without leaflets; rachis densely pubescent; bracts ovate, ca. 2 mm, both surfaces villous, abaxially sparsely ciliate, apex acute. Male flower: adaxial gland subrectangular, entire, abaxial gland large, 3-lobed; stamens 4, unequal, proximally pilose; anthers yellow, ovoid. Female catkin unknown. Fl. Apr.
Similar to Salix rosthornii but male catkin peduncle without leaflets; bracts about as long as stamens, villous; adaxial gland entire, abaxial gland 3-lobed; stamens 4.
* Near water. Zhejiang
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