孔目矮柳 kong mu ai liu

Shrubs low, to 50 cm tall. Juvenile branchlets fastigiate, crowded together at apex of branches, dark brown, glabrous. Buds dull yellow, oblong, slightly flat, glabrous. Petiole 3-8 mm, glabrous; leaf blade broadly oblong, 1-2 × 0.6-1.2 cm, woolly when young, glabrescent; base broadly cuneate or subrounded, margin serrate distally, apex slightly obtuse or subacute. Flowering coetaneous. Catkins at apex of branchlets. Male catkin ca. 1.5 cm × 6 mm; rachis pilose; bracts elliptic, ciliate. Male flower: glands 2; stamens 2; filaments partly connate or free, glabrous. Female catkin ca. 10 × 9 mm; rachis glabrous; bracts broadly elliptic or orbicular-obovate, glabrous at margin or loosely ciliate. Female flower: gland adaxial; ovary glabrous; stipe short; style ca. 2 mm, lobed; stigma 2-lobed, apex subtruncate, sometimes shallowly undulate, Fl. Jul.

* 3500-3800 m. Yunnan (Gongshan Drungzu Nuzu Zizhixian)

A. K. Skvortsov indicates that this species may be the same as Salix paraflabellaris.