毛柄柳 mao bing liu

Salix bhutanensis Floderus var. lasiopes (C. Wang & P. Y. Fu) N. Chao.

Shrubs to 2 m tall. Juvenile branchlets densely long gray pubescent; 2-year-old branchlets ± long gray pubescent. Stipules sublanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, ca. 3.5 mm, pilose, margin dentate; petiole 4-8 mm, long gray pubescent; leaf blade oblong-lanceolate or oblong, 4-6 × 1.8-2.5 cm, abaxially pale or greenish except glabrous along midvein, adaxially green, base rounded to cuneate, margin entire, apex acute or shortly acuminate; lateral veins ca. 11 on each side of midvein. Male catkin unknown. Fruiting catkin 6-9 × ca. 1.5 cm; peduncle 3-9 mm, with 2 or 3 leaflets, pilose; rachis pilose; bracts dull purplish brown when dried, ovate or obovate, proximally downy on both surfaces, apex retuse. Female flower: adaxial and abaxial glands ca. as long as stipe; style long, 2-cleft; stigma 2-lobed. Capsule glabrous, stipitate.

* Mountain slopes; circa 3000 m. Xizang