Salix lindleyana
Also known as creeping Himalayan willow
species of plant in the genus Salix
Species
SPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderMalpighiales
- FamilySalicaceae
Native toChina South-Central, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Tibet, West Himalaya
Shrubs procumbent, up to 3.5 cm tall; trunk creeping, dull brown. Juvenile branchlets ascending, russet, sparsely villous or glabrous. Buds yellowish green, ovoid, small, glabrous. Petiole 3-6 mm long; leaf blade obovate-oblong, oblong, or obovate-lanceolate, 1-1.5 cm long, ca. 4-7 mm wide, up to 2.5 cm long, 10 mm wide on shoots, abaxially pale, glabrous, pilose when young, adaxially bright green, glabrous, base cuneate, margin entire, usually slightly revolute, apex acute, rarely obtuse; midvein conspicuously raised abaxially. Flowering coetaneous. Catkins terminal, ovoid, only few flowered; bracts purplish red, broadly ovate, ciliate, apex rounded. Male flower: glands 2, ca. 1/3 as long as bracts; stamens 2; filaments villous at base; anthers broadly ovoid. Female flower: adaxial gland ca. 2/3 as long as bracts; ovary ovoid-conical, glabrous, subsessile; style short, thick, 2-cleft; stigma 2-lobed. Capsule shortly stipitate.
via GBIF · Kew POWO