Salix austrotibetica N. Chao

Shrubs to 1.5 m tall. Juvenile branchlets at first sparsely white villous, glabrescent. Buds glabrous. Petiole 2-6 mm, at first villous; leaf blade long obovate-elliptic, 1.5-4.5 × 0.6-1.8 cm, papery, abaxially pale, pruinose, adaxially green, both surfaces villous, glabrescent, base attenuate, margin entire or irregularly glandular dentate, apex obtuse or acute; lateral veins ca. 5 each side of raised midvein. Male and female catkins 2.5-3.5 cm; rachis glabrous or subglabrous; bracts long obovate-elliptic, ca. 2.5 mm, ciliate, apex rounded or subtruncate. Male flower: glands 2, linear, adaxial gland slightly longer than abaxial gland; stamens 2, ca. 4 mm, free, glabrous. Female flower: adaxial gland linear; ovary ellipsoid, ca. 2.5 mm, glabrous, white pruinose; stipe ca. 0.5 mm; style purplish, ca. 1.5 mm, 2-cleft; stigma 2-lobed. Fl. Aug.

E Xizang

* Mountain slopes; circa 3300 m.