Salix nankingensis C. Wang & S. L. Tung

Similar to Salix wilsonii but leaf blade light green abaxially; male and female flowers with lobed glands, adaxial gland of female flower usually forming false disc; stipe short.

Shrubs or small trees. Branches dark purplish brown; branchlets russet, downy, glabrescent. Buds brown, ovoid, pilose. Stipules semiovate, margin sparsely serrate; petiole ca. 7 mm; leaf blade lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, rarely elliptic, 2-8 × 1-2 cm, abaxially light green, glabrous, sometimes pilose when young, adaxially green, glabrous, base broadly cuneate or subrounded, margin glandular serrulate, apex long acuminate to acuminate; midvein raised abaxially. Flowering coetaneous. Male catkin 2-3 cm × ca. 6 mm, sessile, with 2 or 3 scalelike leaflets at base, or leaflets absent; rachis pilose; bracts yellowish green, ovate, adaxially pilose, apex rounded. Male flower: glands 2, brownish yellow, lobed; stamens (3-)5(or 6); filaments villous at base, ca. 2 × as long as bracts; anthers yellow, globose. Fruiting catkin to 5 cm; peduncle ca. 1 cm, with 2 or 3 leaflets; rachis pubescent; bracts ovate or elliptic, abaxially sparsely villous at base, adaxially sparsely villous, longer than stipe. Female flower: adaxial glands 2, lobed, usually forming false disc; ovary ovoid-ellipsoid, shortly stipitate; style lobed. Capsule ca. 4 mm. Fl. Mar, fr. May-Jun.

* Near water. Jiangsu (Nanjing Shi)

Salix nankingensis là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Liễu. Loài này được C. Wang & S.L. Tung miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1980.

南京柳（学名：Salix nankingensis）是杨柳科柳属的植物，是中国的特有植物。分布在中国大陆的江苏等地，生长于海拔40米至520米的地区，常生于水边。