Salix salwinensis var. radinostachya Handel-Mazzetti.

Shrubs to more than 1 m tall. Young branchlets and buds densely pilose. Leaves opposite, stipulate, shortly petiolate; stipules lanceolate; leaf blade lanceolate or oblanceolate, 4-8 × 1.5-2 cm, abaxially tomentose, greenish, adaxially tomentose or pubescent, green, base cuneate or subrounded, margin entire, apex acute or acuminate. Male catkin sessile; bracts obovate, abaxially and marginally downy, adaxially subglabrous, apex subtruncate. Male flower: adaxial gland slightly larger than abaxial one; stamens 2, distinct; filaments downy for ca. 1/2 their length or nearly throughout. Female catkin cylindric, 4-6 cm; peduncle 5-10 mm, with 2-4 oblong leaflets; bracts oblong, as long as or slightly longer than ovary at anthesis, abaxially and marginally villous, adaxially subglabrous, apex subtruncate or obtuse. Female flower: gland adaxial, ovate-oblong; ovary ovoid, ca. 2.5 mm, downy, sessile; style long, 2-parted; stigma 2-lobed. Capsule ca. 5 mm.

Woods; 2900-3200 m. NW Yunnan [Bhutan, E Nepal, Sikkim].