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259. Salix kirilowiana Stscheglejew, Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou. 27(1): 148. 1854.
天山筐柳 tian shan kuang liu
Description from Flora of China
Shrubs or small trees; crown low and broad. Branches arcuate, slender; 2- and 3-year-old branchlets usually dark purplish brown. Leaf blade narrowly lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, thin, somewhat glaucous, abaxially silvery when young, margin entire, rarely with extremely tiny denticles, apex thinly sharpened. Peduncles 3-12 cm, with 1-3 small leaflets; bracts pale, yellowish or pinkish, glabrous or very slightly pubescent, obtuse. Male flower: filaments wholly connate, densely hairy at base. Female catkin with bracts at least partly caducous. Female flower: gland adaxial, quadrangular, shorter than pedicel; style and stigma minute. Capsule narrowly conical, glabrous, shortly pedicellate.
* Mountain river valleys, especially on pebbles and gravelly alluvium; below 2500 m. Xinjiang (Tian Shan)
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