Salix [unranked] Myrtilloides Borrer ex Loudon, Arbor. Frutic. Brit. 3: 1587. 1838.

Shrubs dwarf, to 80 cm tall. Branchlets slender. Leaf blade ovate or oblong-elliptic to suborbicular, thin, usually glabrous, with conspicuous veins, blackened when dried. Catkins pedunculate, with leaflets on peduncle; bracts 2-colored. Male flower: gland solitary, adaxial; stamens 2; filaments distinct. Female flower: gland as in male flower; ovary glabrous, long stipitate.