Finely-toothed Willow

It is a shrub that reaches a size of 0.1-0.2 (0.4) m in height, ± creeping. The gnarled branches, glabrescent at first, then glabrous, reddish-brown or grayish-brown. The leaves are 2 (5) × 1–2 cm, lanceolate to elliptical or transovate-lanceolate, acute or more rarely obtuse at the apex, rounded or shortly attenuated at the base, with the margin toothed-serrated, glandular, upper side and underside normally glabrous, sometimes hairy, green and shiny, without glaucescence on the underside, with 3-5 pairs of secondary nerves, prominent on both sides; petiole short, less than 0.5 cm; stipules ovate-lanceolate, equal-sided, sharply serrated, sometimes absent. Catkinsup to 3 × 1 cm, contemporaneous, sometimes late, terminal or subterminal, on long peduncles, with foliaceous bracts and hairy rachis; floral bracts transovate, with the apex obtuse, dark, pubescent. Flowers with a violet nectarium; the masculine ones with 2 stamens, with free filaments, glabrous, and purple or black anthers, then violaceous; the female ones with a subsessile or sessile pistil, tomentose, glabrescent at maturity, purple or red-violet, long, purple in style, and purple bifid stigmas.

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