西柳 xi liu

Shrubs to 2 m tall. Branches dull brown or brownish red, tomentulose. Petiole 3-6 mm, adaxially canaliculate, white tomentose; leaf blade lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 3-5 × 0.8-1.2 cm, abaxially densely silky tomentose, adaxially green, tomentose, base cuneate, margin indistinctly remotely glandular denticulate or subentire, apex acute. Male catkin thinly cylindric, ca. 1.5 cm × 3 mm; peduncle short; rachis downy; bracts obovate, glabrous. Male flower: adaxial gland larger than abaxial gland or latter sometimes absent; stamens 2 or 3, distinct; filaments downy at base; anthers yellow, ellipsoid. Female catkin thinly cylindric, 1-1.5 cm × 2-3 mm; peduncle short, with 3-5 pubescent leaflets; rachis densely white downy; bracts yellowish brown, obovate or ovate, glabrous. Female flower: gland adaxial; ovary ovoid or ovoid, glabrous, shortly stipitate; style short; stigma capitate, 2-lobed. Capsule ovoid-oblong, shortly stipitate. Fl. Apr, fr. May-Jun.

* Damp mountain slopes; 1100-3500 m. Sichuan, NW Yunnan