Salix flabellaris Andersson

N.J. Andersson (l.c) has cited 3 specimens along with the original description. In addition to the lectotype (l.c.) he has cited `Ad Kamaon, Wallich' and `In alpibus Himalensibus' W. Hoffmeister also. However, as A.K. Skvortsov has selected the Jacquemont's specimen as `Type' in Flora Iranica. It is designated here as lectotype.

Shrubs creeping. Branches russet; juvenile branchlets grayish white villous at base. Buds russet, ovoid, small. Leaf blade spatulate-obovate or elliptic, 0.9-1.5 cm × 5-10 mm, base rounded or broadly cuneate, margin regularly glandular serrate or crenate, more densely so distally, apex rounded or obtuse. Flowering coetaneous. Catkins lateral, ca. 1.5 cm, many and slightly loosely flowered; peduncle slightly elongate, with several leaflets; rachis sparsely downy; bracts obovate-oblong, glabrous, apex rounded-truncate. Male flower: adaxial gland larger than abaxial one or 2-cleft; stamens 2, free; filaments glabrous, ca. 5 mm; anthers ellipsoid. Bracts of female catkin oblong, glabrous. Female flower: gland adaxial; ovary glabrous, shortly stipitate; style coarse; stigma 2-lobed.

Dwarf shrub, up to 15 cm tall, branches procumbent, twigs glabrous. Leaves, exstipulate, petiole c. 4-8 mm long, sulcate; lamina elliptic, obovate or suborbicular, 7-25(-35) x 5-25 mm, acute or obtuse, margin crenate or serrate. Flowers after the leaves. Male catkin 10-45 mm long, terminal on short leafy shoots, peduncle 8-25 mm long, rachis puberulous. Bracts obovate, brown, glabrous, apex rotund to subtruncate. Disk of 2 erect glands, one in front and one behind the stamens. Stamens 2, filaments free, glabrous, 1.5-2.5 mm long, anthers subglobose 0.3-0.5 mm long. Female catkin similar to the male; gland 1, half surrounding the base of the ovary. Ovary glabrous, subsessile. Capsule ± sessile, ovate, mature 3-4.5 mm long, style 0.1-0.3 mm, stigma 2-lobed, stigmata c. 0.2 mm long.

W Sichuan, Xizang, NW Yunnan [Bhutan, Kashmir, Sikkim]

Distribution: Pakistan, (Chitral, Swat, Hazara, Karakoram, Gilgit), Kashmir, India (Tehri-Garhwal), Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim; China (W. Sichuan, Xizang, Yunnan) (F. Zhenfu, Z. Shidong & A.K. Skvortsov, l.c.).

Fl. Per.: June-July.

Mountains; 3600-4000 m.