Description from
Flora of China
Salix camusii H. Léveillé.
Shrubs or trees. Branchlets brown or russet, juvenile branchlets stout, densely dirty pubescent or tomentose, glabrescent. Buds dirty brown, ovoid, pilose. Petiole 5-7 mm, pubescent or
tomentose; leaf blade elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 4-6.5 × 1.8-2.5 cm, abaxially greenish or slightly white, pubescent along midvein, glabrous, villous when young, glabrescent, adaxially
green, both ends acute or base cuneate-rounded, margin entire; lateral veins 10-15 on each side of midvein. Flowering precocious or coetaneous. Male catkin, yellowish green or brown
distally, cylindric 3-3.5 cm × 8-10 mm; peduncle 5-10 mm, with 2-4 leaflets ca. 1 cm; bracts ovate or oblong-ovate, ca. 2 mm, villous or adaxially subglabrous. Male flower: gland
adaxial; stamens 2; filaments distinct or partly connate, to 5 mm, glabrous; anthers yellow. Female catkin 4-6 cm × 6-8 mm; bracts as in male catkin. Female flower: adaxial gland oblong,
slightly shorter than stipe; ovary ovoid-cylindric to conical, 2-3.5 mm, glabrous or adaxially slightly pubescent, stipitate; style conspicuous; stigma ovate, sometimes divided. Capsule
6-7 mm. Fl. Mar-Apr, fr. May.
Similar in its immature leaves and male catkin to Salix wallichiana but male catkin effuse, somewhat elongate; female catkin slender at anthesis; ovary glabrous.
* Near streams; 1300-2000 m. Guizhou, W Hubei, Sichuan.