Salix [unranked] Pentandrae Borrer ex Hooker, Brit. Fl. 416. 1830.

Shrubs or small trees. Buds and young leaves viscid. Petiole glandular; leaf blade obovate-elliptic, elliptic, or ovate-oblong, rarely broadly lanceolate or broadly elliptic, adaxially shiny, margin prominently regularly glandular serrulate, apex acute to acuminate. Flowering coetaneous. Catkins spreading, densely flowered; peduncle conspicuous, with leaflets; bracts of female catkin yellowish green, usually caducous at fruiting. Male flower: stamens 5-9(-12). Female flower: adaxial and abaxial glands lobed, rarely entire, abaxial gland sometimes absent; ovary ovoid-conical, shortly stipitate; style and stigma conspicuous.