褐毛柳 he mao liu

Salix transarisanensis Hayata.

Shrubs or small trees. Branchlets brown pubescent. Petiole 5-8 mm, densely brown pubescent; leaf blade lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 5-10 × 1.5-3 cm, abaxially brown pubescent, adaxially glabrous or pubescent along veins, base rounded or obtuse, margin entire, apex acute to acuminate; lateral veins ca. 12 on each side of midvein. Flowering coetaneous. Male catkin cylindric, short, ca. 4 cm; peduncle with 1 or 2 leaflets or not; bracts elliptic or oblong, pubescent or subglabrous. Male flower: adaxial gland stout; stamens 2, free; filaments with loose hairs proximally; anthers yellow. Female catkin laxly flowered; bracts as in male catkin. Female flower: ovary ovoid-conical, glabrous; stipe ca. as long as bracts; style very short; stigma 4-lobed.

* Mountain slopes; circa 2000 m. Taiwan