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Habit Shrubs or trees, 0.3–7 m. Buds caprea-type.
Leaves

stipules on late ones foliaceous;

largest medial blade 2–5 times as long as wide, adaxial surface not glaucous.

Staminate flowers

filaments glabrous.

Pistillate flowers

adaxial nectary longer than stipe;

stipe 0–0.6 mm;

ovary sparsely to very densely villous;

stigmas slenderly cylindrical, 0.3–1.3 mm.

Salix sect. Villosae

Distribution
North America; Asia
Discussion

Species 6 (3 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 7, p. 146.
Parent taxa Salicaceae > Salix > subg. Vetrix
Subordinate taxa
Synonyms S. unranked Villosae
Name authority (Andersson) Rouy: Fl. France 12: 200. (1910)
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