湖北柳 hu bei liu

Shrubs. Branches blackish brown, glabrous; branchlets villous. Petiole 3-5 mm, downy; leaf blade ovate-lanceolate, rarely linear-lanceolate, 3-5 × 1-1.4 cm, adaxially dull green, glabrous or pilose along veins, base attenuate or broadly cuneate, margin entire, apex acuminate or acute. Male catkin unknown. Female catkin to 4 × 0.4 cm; peduncle short, with 2 or 3 leaflets; bracts elliptic-oblong, ca. as long as ovary, abaxially densely downy, adaxially subglabrous. Female flower: adaxial gland orbicular; ovary ovoid-ellipsoid, ca. 1.5 mm, pubescent, sessile; style short; stigma slender, 2-lobed.

* Hubei (Changyang Xian)