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  | 1 | Leaf blade broadly obovate-orbicular, ovate, or suborbicular, apex obtuse, rarely acute. |  | (2) |  
  | + | Leaf blade elliptic, ovate, or obovate, apex acute, rarely obtuse. |  | (5) |  
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  | 2 (1) | Leaf blade pale abaxially. |  | (3) |  
  | + | Leaf blade greenish abaxially. |  | (4) |  
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  | 3 (2) | Leaf blade broadly obovate-orbicular, rust-colored or white pubescent when young, margin entire or crenate |  | 104 Salix coggygria |  
  | + | Leaf blade ovate to suborbicular, glabrous, margin entire |  | 99 Salix vaccinioides |  
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  | 4 (2) | Leaf blade obovate-elliptic, 2-5 × 1.5-2.5 cm, adaxially dull green, abaxially light green, remotely crenate-serrate |  | 105 Salix annulifera |  
  | + | Leaf blade broadly obovate to orbicular-elliptic, 1.5-4 × 1.2-2.5 cm, adaxially dull green, abaxially grayish green, or sparsely glandular serrate |  | 100 Salix resectoides |  
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  | 5 (1) | Leaf blade floccose abaxially |  | 102 Salix floccosa |  
  | + | Leaf blade glabrous or downy abaxially, not floccose. |  | (6) |  
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  | 6 (5) | Leaves appressed villous on both surfaces |  | 103 Salix zayulica |  
  | + | Leaves adaxially glabrous or pubescent along veins, abaxially glabrous or downy when young, glabrescent. |  | (7) |  
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  | 7 (6) | Leaf margin conspicuously incurved glandular crenate, blade ovate, obovate, oblong, or spatulate, 1-2(-3) × 0.8-1.3(-2.2) cm |  | 97 Salix microphyta |  
  | + | Leaf margin entire, crenate, or remotely glandular dentate, not incurved, blade elliptic, obovate-elliptic, or oblong, longer and broader. |  | (8) |  
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  | 8 (7) | Leaf margin entire |  | 95 Salix jingdongensis |  
  | + | Leaf margin dentate. |  | (9) |  
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  | 9 (8) | Young branchlets pilose; leaf margin indistinctly sparsely glandular serrate |  | 101 Salix opsimantha |  
  | + | Young branchlets glabrous; leaf margin crenate or crenate-serrate. |  | (10) |  
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  | 10 (9) | Leaf margin crenate or crenate serrate |  | 96 Salix faxonianoides |  
  | + | Leaf margin serrate distally |  | 98 Salix kungmuensis |  |