Salix moupinensis Franch.

Trees. Juvenile branchlets silky villous, glabrescent. Buds subglobose or ovoid, glabrous. Stipules small, deciduous; petiole to 1.7 cm, at first pilose, glabrescent, usually with 1 gland at apex; leaf blade oblong, elliptic, obovate, or ovate, ca. 13 × 6 cm, abaxially light green, adaxially dark green, glabrous, villous along veins when young, glabrescent, base rounded to cuneate, margin glandular serrate, apex acute or shortly acuminate; lateral veins ca. 15 on each side of midvein. Catkins to 6 cm; peduncle 1-2 cm, with normal leaflets; rachis with loose hairs or glabrescent; bracts long elliptic, ca. 1.5 mm, sparsely villous, apex rounded. Male flower: adaxial gland nearly semiorbicular, sometimes 2-cleft, abaxial gland broadly ovate, smaller than adaxial gland; stamens 2, glabrous, distinct; anthers yellow. Fruiting catkin to 15 cm; bracts glabrous or subglabrous. Female flower: adaxial gland broadly ovate; ovary glabrous; stipe short; style short, 2-cleft; stigma 2-lobed. Capsule long ellipsoid-ovoid, ca. 4 mm. Fl. Apr, fr. May-Jun.

W Sichuan, N Yunnan

* Mountains; 1500-3000 m.

Salix moupinensis, the Moupin willow, is a species of flowering plant in the family Salicaceae, native to western Sichuan and northern Yunnan, China. It resembles Salix fargesii and is available from commercial suppliers.

Stem and young buds

Leaves emerging