Salix (sect. Floccosae) K.S. Hao ex C.F. Fang & A.K. Skvortsov
Creators: name: He, Li
name: Liao, Shuai
name: Zhang, Zhixiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Mapighiales
Salicaceae
Salix

description: Key to the species of Sect. Floccosae
1. Ovary densely pilose or pilose only at base ........................................................................................................................... 2
_ Ovary glabrous ....................................................................................................................................................................... 6
2. Bracts margin slightly irregularly dentate or densely dentate, apex subtruncate ................................................. S. annulifera
_ Bracts margin entire, apex obtuse-rounded, obtuse, subtruncate........................................................................................... 3
3. Leaf blade obovate, obovate-elliptic, obovate-oblong, oblong-elliptic, 2–5 × 0.7–2 cm ...................................................... 4
_ Leaf blade obovate to orbicular-elliptic, or obovate-orbicular, 1.5–4.5 × 1.2–3.5 cm .......................................................... 5
4. Leaves abaxially and adaxially densely appressed villous…………….....….………... S. zayulica
_ Leaves abaxially grayish white villous when young, becoming flcoccose or glabrous, adaxially glabrous ......... S. floccosa
5. Ovary densely pilose; bracts pilose ...................................................................................................................... S. coggygria
_ Ovary pilose only at base; bracts glabrous or sparsely ciliate ............................................................................ S. resectoides
6. Leaf margin entire .................................................................................................................................................................. 7
_ Leaf margin crenate, crenate-serrate, glandular serrate, incurved glandular crenate, remotely crenate or serrate ................ 8
7. Ovary stipe 1.2 mm, bracts obovate, apex rounded-truncate, retuse ............................................................. S. jingdongensis
_ Ovary sessile, bracts rounded ........................................................................................................................... S. vaccinioides
8. Catkin glabrous; ovary sessile or subsessile .......................................................................................................................... 9
_ Catkin rachis pilose or pubescent; ovary stipe (0–) 0.1–1.3 mm .......................................................................................... 10
9. Leaf blade elliptic or obovate-elliptic, margin crenate; ovary sessile............................................................ S. faxonianoides
_ Leaf blade broadly oblong, margin serrate distally; ovary stipe short. ............................................................ S. kungmuensis
10. Leaves abaxially greenish; bracts obovate, apex truncate ................................................................................. S. microphyta
_ Leaves abaxially grayish white, pruinose; bracts oblong, narrowly obovate or obovate, apex rounded or slightly acute...11
11. Dwarf shrubs, stems decumbent, rooting; petioles 15–51 mm; styles distinct 1/2 their lengths, stigmas 2-lobed, 0.1 –0.24 mm; ovary stipe 0.8–1.3 mm .................................................................................................................................. S. elongata
_ Low shrubs, stems erect; petioles 4–10 mm; styles distinct 3/4 their lengths, stigmas 2-lobed, 0.2–0.5 mm; ovary stipe (0–) 0.1–0.3 mm .................................................................................................................................................. S. opsimantha
description: Published as part of He, Li, Liao, Shuai & Zhang, Zhixiang, 2014, A new species of Salix (Salicaceae) from Tibet (Xizang), China, pp. 289-294 in Phytotaxa 167 (3) on pages 292-293, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.167.3.8, http://zenodo.org/record/5138875