Shrubs low, to 50 cm tall, glabrous throughout. Branchlets dull red; juvenile branchlets dirty brown when dried. Buds dull red, ovoid. Petiole 5-8 mm; leaf blade broadly elliptic, 2-3 × 1.5-1.8 cm, abaxially with whitish bloom, adaxially green, base broadly cuneate, margin entire, apex acute or mucronate; midvein raised abaxially, retuse adaxially; lateral veins 7 on each side of midvein. Flowering coetaneous. Male catkin unknown. Female catkin shortly cylindric, ca. 1.5 × 0.5 cm; peduncle ca. 1 cm, with 1 or 2 leaflets at base; bracts yellowish green, obovate, ca. as long as or slightly longer than stipe, apex rounded-truncate, retuse. Female flower: adaxial gland shortly cylindric, ca. 1/2 as long as stipe; ovary ovoid, ca. 2 mm; stipe ca. 1.2 cm; style short; stigmas 1, or slightly divided, or 2. Capsule unknown. Fl. May.

Similar to Salix vaccinioides but plants glabrous throughout; stipules absent; adaxial gland of female flower ca. 1/2 as long as stipe; stipe long, ca. 1.2 cm. The female flower is similar to that of sect. Wilsonia, but the plants differ in habit and other characteristics (although the male flower is unknown). Salix jingdongensis is provisionally placed in sect. Floccosae, but more specimens and further research are needed to verify its sectional placement.

* Mountain slopes. C Yunnan (Jingdong Xian)