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10. Salix Sect. Floccosae K. S. Hao ex C. F. Fang & A. K. Skvortsov, Novon. 8: 470. 1998.

青藏矮柳属 qing zang ai liu zu

Shrubs low, usually less than 50(-100) cm tall. Catkins usually terminal or sometimes lateral, cylindric, with leaflets at base. Male flower: stamens 2, distinct; adaxial and abaxial glands present (abaxial rarely absent). Female flower: adaxial gland only present, rarely a small abaxial gland; ovary pilose or glabrous, sessile or subsessile (except in a few species).


Key based on vegetative characters

1 Leaf blade broadly obovate-orbicular, ovate, or suborbicular, apex obtuse, rarely acute.   (2)
+ Leaf blade elliptic, ovate, or obovate, apex acute, rarely obtuse.   (5)
       
2 (1) Leaf blade pale abaxially.   (3)
+ Leaf blade greenish abaxially.   (4)
       
3 (2) Leaf blade broadly obovate-orbicular, rust-colored or white pubescent when young, margin entire or crenate   104 Salix coggygria
+ Leaf blade ovate to suborbicular, glabrous, margin entire   99 Salix vaccinioides
       
4 (2) Leaf blade obovate-elliptic, 2-5 × 1.5-2.5 cm, adaxially dull green, abaxially light green, remotely crenate-serrate   105 Salix annulifera
+ Leaf blade broadly obovate to orbicular-elliptic, 1.5-4 × 1.2-2.5 cm, adaxially dull green, abaxially grayish green, or sparsely glandular serrate   100 Salix resectoides
       
5 (1) Leaf blade floccose abaxially   102 Salix floccosa
+ Leaf blade glabrous or downy abaxially, not floccose.   (6)
       
6 (5) Leaves appressed villous on both surfaces   103 Salix zayulica
+ Leaves adaxially glabrous or pubescent along veins, abaxially glabrous or downy when young, glabrescent.   (7)
       
7 (6) Leaf margin conspicuously incurved glandular crenate, blade ovate, obovate, oblong, or spatulate, 1-2(-3) × 0.8-1.3(-2.2) cm   97 Salix microphyta
+ Leaf margin entire, crenate, or remotely glandular dentate, not incurved, blade elliptic, obovate-elliptic, or oblong, longer and broader.   (8)
       
8 (7) Leaf margin entire   95 Salix jingdongensis
+ Leaf margin dentate.   (9)
       
9 (8) Young branchlets pilose; leaf margin indistinctly sparsely glandular serrate   101 Salix opsimantha
+ Young branchlets glabrous; leaf margin crenate or crenate-serrate.   (10)
       
10 (9) Leaf margin crenate or crenate serrate   96 Salix faxonianoides
+ Leaf margin serrate distally   98 Salix kungmuensis

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