Salix leveilleana C. K. Schneid.

The description is based on the protologue. This species is temporarily placed in this section; additional specimens need to be collected to understand more fully its characteristics and position.

Shrubs or trees. Flowering branchlets silky villous. Buds oblong, shortly pilose. Leaves unknown. Flowering precocious. Male catkin unknown. Female catkin thinner toward apex, usually curved, to 5 × 1 cm, densely flowered, sessile; rachis villous; bracts brownish, oblong, ca. 2 × as long as stipe, long sericeous, apex subobtuse. Female flower: adaxial gland obtusely rectangular; ovary ovoid, glabrous, shortly stipitate; style ca. as long as ovary, puberulent; stigma linear, 2- or 3-lobed. Capsule unknown.

NE Yunnan (Qiaojia Xian)

* About 3000 m.