Salix fedtschenkoi Görz

Shrubs to 1.5 m tall. Branchlets brownish, glabrous. Buds subglobose, glabrous. Stipules obliquely ovate or lanceolate, caducous, margin dentate; petiole short, enlarged at base, notched, at first pubescent, glabrescent; leaf blade elliptic or oblong-obovate, of 1 color, abaxially whitish, glabrous, base cuneate or rounded, margin serrate, apex shortly acuminate, usually oblique; veins conspicuous abaxially. Flowering precocious or

coetaneous. Male catkin cylindric, 2-3 × 0.8-1 cm, sessile; bracts brownish, ovate, villous. Male flower: stamens 2; filaments free, 4-5 mm. Fruiting catkin elongated; peduncle short, with leaflets. Capsule cylindric, glabrous, shortly stipitate or subsessile. Fl. Jun, fr. Jul.

Low spreading shrub, young branches black, glabrous shining, older often with whitish secretions. Flower buds 5-8 x 3-4 mm, obtuse, glabrous. Leaf stipulate, stipules of lower leaves obliquely ovate, others lanceolate, glandular toothed, glabrous. Petiole short; lamina elliptic or oblong-obovate, 1.5-4 times as long as broad, breadth greatest at above the middle, shortly acuminate, usually oblique, glabrous, somewhat hairy on the viens. Catkin precocious or coetaneous, staminate sessile, dense, ovoid-cylindric, 2-3 x 0.8-1 cm, stamens 2, filaments free, 4-5 mm. Anthers 0.4-0.6 mm long. Pistillate catkin cylindrical c. 3 cm long, 1 cm broad; in fruit about 5 cm long. Stalk with scale-like bracts; scales ovate, subobtuse, hairy, hairs long, white. Stipe 0.3-0.5 mm mature; capsule 5-6 mm long, glabrous, style 0.5-1 mm long, stigmas 0.3-0.6 mm long.

Xinjiang (Taxkorgan Tajik Zizhixian) [Afghanistan, Tajikistan].

Distribution: Afghanistan (Nuristan), Tajikistan (Pamir, Darvaz), Pakistan (Gilgit) (A.K. Skvortsov, l.c.); China (Xinjiang) (F. Zhenfu, Z. Shidong & A.K. Skvortsov l.c.).

Fl. Per.: June.

Valleys; 3300-3400 m.