Salix donggouxianica

Salix donggouxianica grows as a shrub up to 2 meters high with a gray-brown, smooth bark. The branches are thin, bare, yellowish and spotted black. Young twigs are yellow-green. The buds are egg-shaped and have brown-yellow, bare bud scales. The leaves have a 1.5 to 2 millimeter long, bare petiole. The leaf blade is linear-lanceolate, 3.5 to 4.5 centimeters long and 7 to 8 millimeters wide. The leaf margin is slightly blunt, the leaf base wedge-shaped, the leaf end pointed. The male inflorescences are elongated to short petioles, 1 to 2 centimeters long and 6 to 7 millimeters in diameter catkins. The peduncle is short and has one or two scale-like, small leaves. The bracts are rust-red, inverted triangular, about 1 millimeter long, ciliate and shaggy hairy on the underside near the base. The end of the sheet is trimmed. Male flowers have a petiolate, about 0.3 millimeter long adaxial nectar gland. The stamenshave grown together, the individual stamens have shaggy hairs at the base, the anthers are red, egg-shaped and quadruple. The female catkins are round, 1 to 2.5 centimeters long and 3.5 to 5 millimeters in diameter. The bracts are spatulate, about 1.4 millimeters long and ciliate on the underside near the base. The end of the sheet is almost trimmed. Female flowers have a short, pedicled nectar gland about 0.4 millimeters long. …

The natural range is in the Chinese province of Liaoning in Donggou County. There the species grows in the coastal plains.