Comments
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Grown to stabilize dunes; used for weaving wicker articles.
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Description
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Shrubs to 2 m tall; bark grayish white. Branchlets yellow or yellowish, glabrous, shiny. Buds russet, oblong. Stipules lanceolate, 3-6 mm, usually caducous, margin glandular dentate; petiole 2-3 mm, glabrous; leaf blade linear or linear-lanceolate, 2-8 cm × 3-6 mm, abaxially slightly white, tomentulose when young, glabrescent, adaxially greenish, base cuneate, margin glandular serrate, apex shortly acuminate. Catkins ellipsoid to shortly terete, 1.5-2.5 cm × 7-8 mm, sessile; bracts oblong, gray villous, apex obtuse. Male flower: stamens 2; filaments distinct, glabrous; anthers yellow, oblong, 2-loculed. Female flower: ovary long ovoid, slightly pilose or glabrous; style short; stigma circa as long as style, 4-parted. Capsule brownish yellow, circa 4 mm, glabrous. Fl. Apr, fr. May
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Habitat & Distribution
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Dunes. Liaoning, E Nei Mongol; cultivated in N Gansu [Mongolia].
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Synonym
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Salix flavida Y. L. Chang & Skvortzov.
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