Salix geminata Y. L. Chang & Skvortzov; S. ilectica Y. L. Chou; S. ilectica var. integristyla Y. L. Chou; S. xerophila Floderus var. ilectica (Y. L. Chou) Y. L. Chou.

Shrubs to 1 m tall. One-year-old branchlets dark russet, glabrous or with rudimentary hairs; juvenile branchlets tomentose. Buds pubescent, glabrescent, apex acute. Stipules semiovate-lanceolate or obliquely semicordate; petiole 3-5 mm, villous; leaf blade ovate, elliptic, or obovate, 1-4.5 × 0.5-2.5 cm, thick, abaxially greenish or slightly white, adaxially green, slightly wrinkled, conspicuously so when fresh, both surfaces downy, when mature glabrescent, base cuneate or rounded, margin entire or irregularly shallowly dentate, slightly recurved, apex acute or shortly acuminate; lateral veins 5-7 on each side of midvein; reticulate veins raised. Flowering precocious. Male catkin ellipsoid to shortly cylindric, 1-2.5 cm, sessile; bracts yellowish green, oblong, rarely ovate, long pubescent, sometimes glabrescent, apex purplish red. Male flower: gland adaxial; stamens 2; filaments distinct, downy; anthers yellow. Fruiting catkin 4-5 cm, pedunculate, with 3-5 leaflets. Female flower: ovary narrowly ovoid or ovoid-conical, rarely ovoid, villous, long stipitate; style short or sessile; stigma 2-4-lobed. Capsule narrowly conical, downy; stipe very long. Fl. Jun, fr. Jun-Jul.

* Open woodlands, mountain slopes. Heilongjiang, E Nei Mongol